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Data preprocessing, missing data imputation, oversampling of the non-survivor class, and random undersampling of the survivor class were performed prior to training a random forest classifier for mortality prediction.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The overall 30-day mortality in our model dataset is 19.5%. The model displays an overall accuracy of 88.84% (CI: 86.79%, 90.66%), with strong precision (84.13%, CI: 78.4%, 88.8%) and sensitivity (89.98%, CI: 87.8%, 91.9%) in identifying non-survivors. The area under the curve (AUC) is 0.941 (CI: 0.924, 0.957) for subjects in the non-survival class. 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