What is the meaning of 'activetx' in the apache predvar table?

[tohokulgq]

hello!
I want to know the meaning of 'activetx' in apachepredvar table.

Because i am doing the machine learning research right now and 'activetx'is the most important variable after the analysis of the machine learning model, but there are less explanation of this character.

Your answer will help me a lot! !

[jraffa]

Hi @tohokulgq,

activetx is short of 'active treatment'. A list of the active treatments can be found here:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6232310/

The variable was originally created to distinguish between patients in the ICU for monitoring (lower risk) versus those requiring ICU treatment.

Jesse