Discussion
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The novelty of this study is the use of machine learning (ML) to come up with a model that is superior to the traditional LR model. We used this machine learning (ML)-based model that was built on objective indicators to predict the short-term in-hospital mortality risk of elderly people. The model can be used as an automatic warning system to indicate the risk of death of patients. Previous studies proved that the C statistic can improve by 0.12 with the NIHSS score added to the model (