Research Article

Design of a Clinical Decision Support System for Fracture Prediction Using Imbalanced Dataset

Table 5

Association between prescribed oral or intravenous corticosteroid and fracture.

Fracture value
No ()Yes ()

Medication (oral or intravenous corticosteroids)10511 (90.3%)1134 (9.7%)
Cumulative dose (mg)<0.001
Mean ± SD1345.77 ± 2831.302355.86 ± 4049.43
Median390810
Mean follow-up daily dose (mg/d) (cumulative dose/follow-up duration)0.979
Mean ± SD59.74 ± 218.3959.56 ± 285.58
Median4.543.275
Mean exposed daily dose (mg/d)0.001
(Cumulative dose/cumulative exposed duration)
Mean ± SD67.65 ± 235.6294.04 ± 314.98
Median13.4515
Duration (day), median (range)
Follow-up duration706.77 ± 907.35999.65 ± 997.09<0.001
Median240731.0
Exposed duration90.11 ± 194.80154.04 ± 320.91<0.001
Median2838.5