Forecasting respiratory tract infection episodes from prescription data for healthcare service planning
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Forecasting respiratory tract infection episodes from prescription data for healthcare service planning Atikur R. Khan1
· Khandaker Tabin Hasan2 · Towhidul Islam3 · Saleheen Khan4
Received: 21 October 2019 / Accepted: 11 October 2020 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract Changing weather patterns affect the incidence of respiratory tract infections, which causes huge economic burden for healthcare services. Early warning for the infection may help healthcare service providers to prepare for an epidemic on time. The purpose of the current research is to explore the relationship between respiratory tract infection episodes and climatic factors and to predict the number of daily episodes in different weather zones of active weather stations in Bangladesh. Prescription data collected from clinics are integrated with climatic factors of the nearest weather stations, and the integrated dataset is used to predict the daily respiratory tract infection episodes. We apply panel generalized linear models and show that the number of episodes increases to a greater extent for increasing magnitude of rolling standard deviation of relative humidity and rolling mean of wind speed. A 7-day-ahead forecast of number of episodes based on rolling window models of regression tree, random forest, support vector regression, and deep neural network is estimated to know the severity of epidemic for healthcare planning. A further 1-day-ahead confirmation forecast is produced to assess the necessity of healthcare service plan adopted based on a 7-day-ahead forecast. Root mean squared forecast errors computed for both 7-day-ahead and 1-day-ahead forecasts from these models provide qualitatively similar results, except for three weather stations where an unusually high number of episodes are observed because of extreme climate and high level of air pollution. Keywords Deep neural network · Prescription data · Regression tree · Respiratory tract infection · Support vector regression
1 Introduction Respiratory tract infections (RTI) are the most common infections worldwide and are causing a considerable economic burden to healthcare services [22]. Respiratory disease episodes are correlated with climatic factors such as temperature and relative humidity [2,14,17]. There is a strong
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Atikur R. Khan [email protected] Khandaker Tabin Hasan [email protected] Towhidul Islam [email protected] Saleheen Khan [email protected]
1
North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
2
American International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
3
Independent University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
4
Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA
correlation between air quality and variations in climatic factors. As consequences of air pollution, there were almost 4.2 million premature deaths in 2016 and 91% of those deaths were in low- and middle-income countries [27]. Being a developing country, Bangladesh is achieving a very fast economic growth and rapid industrialization with the cost of increasing air pollution and climate change. F
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