Generalization, Cross-ICU Transfer, and Explainability of a Mortality and Time-to-Discharge Framework for the Intensive Care Unit
Background: PADS combines two neural networks predicting ICU mortality and discharge within 48 h, placing critically ill patients into one of four clinically meaningful states. Developed on MIMIC-IV alone, it left open whether it generalizes to other ICUs, whether its models transfer across hospitals, and whether its p...