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Methods: Variables were extracted from the electronic medical records of 880 patients with IHCA admitted to a medical intensive care unit. The CatBoost and logistic regression models were trained on a stratified 80\/20 split. The decision threshold was optimized using the Youden index (0.482). Discrimination (ROC-AUC with bootstrap confidence intervals), classification metrics, precision\u2013recall analysis, calibration, and decision curve analysis were reported. Results: CatBoost achieved a ROC-AUC of 0.850 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.822\u20130.879) in the training set and 0.827 (95% CI: 0.760\u20130.887) in the internal test set, outperforming logistic regression (0.797; 95% CI: 0.720\u20130.861). The test set accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, specificity, and average precision were 0.761, 0.847, 0.790, 0.817, 0.702, and 0.909, respectively. The Brier score was 0.186. Decision curve analysis showed net benefit across threshold probabilities of 0.20\u20130.70. The SHAP analysis identified m-NUTRIC and age as the dominant predictors, whereas micronutrients served as complementary contextual factors. Conclusions: The CatBoost model consistently outperformed the logistic regression and warrants prospective multicenter validation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm15062310","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,18]],"date-time":"2026-03-18T07:35:08Z","timestamp":1773819308000},"page":"2310","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Early Risk Stratification for 30-Day Mortality After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: SHAP Interpretable CatBoost Model with m-NUTRIC and Micronutrient Biomarkers"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2166-0545","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"G\u00fclseren","family":"Elay","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep 27310, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ayta\u00e7","family":"G\u00fcven","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep 27310, Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1200","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2019.1696","article-title":"In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Review","volume":"321","author":"Andersen","year":"2019","journal-title":"JAMA"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1912","DOI":"10.1056\/NEJMoa1109148","article-title":"Trends in survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest","volume":"367","author":"Girotra","year":"2012","journal-title":"N. 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