Assessing the international transferability of a machine learning model for detecting medication error in the general internal medicine clinic: Multicenter preliminary validation study (27 January 2021)

Summary

Although most current medication error prevention systems are rule-based, these systems may result in alert fatigue because of poor accuracy. Previously, we had developed a machine learning (ML) model based on Taiwan’s local databases (TLD) to address this issue. However, the international transferability of this model is unclear.

This study examines the international transferability of a machine learning model for detecting medication errors and whether the federated learning approach could further improve the accuracy of the model.

It found that the ML model has good international transferability among US hospital data. Using the federated learning approach with local hospital data could further improve the accuracy of the model.