Shall we repeat? Predicting the necessity to repeat blood testing in pediatric emergency departments of laboratory tests previously performed in the community using a machine learning model

Adi Shuchami; Teddy Lazebnik; Shai Ashkenazi; Avner Herman Cohen; Yael Reichenberg; Vered Shkalim Zemer

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0352682

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Shall we repeat? Predicting the necessity to repeat blood testing in pediatric emergency departments of laboratory tests previously performed in the community using a machine learning model

Adi Shuchami ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: adi.shuchami@msmail.ariel.ac.il (AS); teddy.lazebnik@ju.se (TL)

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5750-1215

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Teddy Lazebnik ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: adi.shuchami@msmail.ariel.ac.il (AS); teddy.lazebnik@ju.se (TL)

Affiliations Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, Department of Computing, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden
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Shai Ashkenazi,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, Israel
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Avner Herman Cohen,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation

Affiliations Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Dan Petach-Tikva District, Clalit Health Services, Petah Tikva, Central District, Israel
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Yael Reichenberg,

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Dan Petach-Tikva District, Clalit Health Services, Petah Tikva, Central District, Israel
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Vered Shkalim Zemer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, Dan Petach-Tikva District, Clalit Health Services, Petah Tikva, Central District, Israel
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Shall we repeat? Predicting the necessity to repeat blood testing in pediatric emergency departments of laboratory tests previously performed in the community using a machine learning model

Adi Shuchami,
Teddy Lazebnik,
Shai Ashkenazi,
Avner Herman Cohen,
Yael Reichenberg,
Vered Shkalim Zemer

Published: September 21, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0352682

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