A Time-Critical Topic Model for Predicting the Survival Time of Sepsis Patients

Table 4

Notations for phase .

Notation	Description
	Total number of patients
	Total number of phases
	Patient m treated by clinicians for a total of days
	Real survival time for patient m after phase I-1
	Predicted survival time for patient m after phase I-1
	Regression coefficient
	Function for computing real survival time
	Function for computing predicted survival time
	The function value of the difference between and