Predicting medical waste generation and associated factors using machine learning in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Associated factors Ensemble voting regression Kingdom of Bahrain Machine learning Medical waste prediction Sustainability

Journal

Environmental science and pollution research international

ISSN: 1614-7499

Titre abrégé: Environ Sci Pollut Res Int

Pays: Germany

ID NLM: 9441769

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
27 May 2024

Historique:

received: 28 11 2023

accepted: 19 05 2024

medline: 27 5 2024

pubmed: 27 5 2024

entrez: 27 5 2024

Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

Effective planning and managing medical waste necessitate a crucial focus on both the public and private healthcare sectors. This study uses machine learning techniques to estimate medical waste generation and identify associated factors in a representative private and a governmental hospital in Bahrain. Monthly data spanning from 2018 to 2022 for the private hospital and from 2019 to February 2023 for the governmental hospital was utilized. The ensemble voting regressor was determined as the best model for both datasets. The model of the governmental hospital is robust and successful in explaining 90.4% of the total variance.Similarly, for the private hospital, the model variables are able to explain 91.7% of the total variance. For the governmental hospital, the significant features in predicting medical waste generation were found to be the number of inpatients, population, surgeries, and outpatients, in descending order of importance. In the case of the private hospital, the order of feature importance was the number of inpatients, deliveries, personal income, surgeries, and outpatients. These findings provide insights into the factors influencing medical waste generation in the studied hospitals and highlight the effectiveness of the ensemble voting regressor model in predicting medical waste quantities.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11356-024-33773-1 PMID: 38801607

pubmed: 38801607

doi: 10.1007/s11356-024-33773-1

pii: 10.1007/s11356-024-33773-1

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Journal Article

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eng

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