Machine Learning–Enhanced Surveillance for Surgical Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Colon Surgery: Model Development and Evaluation Study

Ugur Celik   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Feifan Liu   ^{2 *} , PhD ;   Kimiyoshi Kobayashi   ^{2, 3, 4 *} , MD, MBA ;   Richard T Ellison III   ^{3, 5 *} , MD ;   Yurima Guilarte-Walker   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Deborah Ann Mack   ^{5 *} , RN ;   Qiming Shi   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Adrian Zai   ^{2 *} , MD, MPH, PhD

¹ Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

² Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Division of Health Informatics and Implementation Science, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

³ Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester, MA, United States

⁴ UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, United States

⁵ Infection Control Department, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA, United States

*all authors contributed equally