urinary: urinary Bayesian Network

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urinary Bayesian Network

Description

Urinary tract infections in children: building a causal model-based decision support tool for diagnosis with domain knowledge and prospective data.

Format

A discrete Bayesian network to describe the causal relationships among variables relevant to paediatric urinary tract infections. Probabilities were given within the referenced paper. The vertices are:

AbdoPain

(Yes, Unknown);

AgeGroup

(LessThan6Mon, Btw6MonAnd2Yr, Btw2And5Yr, Above5Yr);

CauseUTI

(EColi, OtherGramNeg, GramPos, None);

CollMethod

(CleanCatch, Catheter, SupraAsp);

ContaminationRisk

(High, Low);

CRPLevel

(Above70, Btw15And70, Below50, NotDone)

CurrPhenotype

(Type1, Type2, Type3);

Diarrhea

(Yes, No);

EColi

(Positive, Negative);

EColiPresence

(High, Low);

EmpricAbxGroup3

(Narrow, Broader);

Epithelials

(Low, Moderate);

FeverPR

(Yes, No);

GramPos

(Positive, Negative);

GramPosPresence

(High, Low);

Irritable

(Yes, No);

Lethargy

(Yes, No);

Microscopy_bacts

(Many, Moderate, Few, NotSeen);

NauseaOrVomit

(Yes, No);

NeutLevel

(Above15, Btw8And15, Below8, NotDone);

OnAbxEDGroup3

(No, Narrow, Broader);

OtherGramNeg

(Positive, Negative);

OtherGramNegPresence

(High, Low);

PoorIntake

(Yes, No);

PrevUriKidProbs

(Reported, Unknown);

RespSymp

(Yes, No);

Sex

(Female, Male);

TemperatureLvl2

(Abv385, Btw375and385, Btw365and375, Below365);

UltraSound

(Abnormal, Unknown, NotDone);

Urin_Leuc

(High, Moderate, Low);

Urin_LeucEst

(High, Moderate, Low, NotDetected);

Urin_Nitrite

(Detected, NotDetected);

UrinSym_haematuria

(Yes, Unknown);

UrinSym_PainOrDiscomf

(Yes, Unknown);

UrinSym_smelly

(Yes, Unknown);

WCCLevel

(Above18, Btw10And18, Below10, NotDone);

Value

An object of class bn.fit. Refer to the documentation of bnlearn for details.

References

Ramsay, J. A., Mascaro, S., Campbell, A. J., Foley, D. A., Mace, A. O., Ingram, P., ... & Wu, Y. (2022). Urinary tract infections in children: building a causal model-based decision support tool for diagnosis with domain knowledge and prospective data. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22(1), 218.

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