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Machine learning to assist clinical decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Background: The number of cases from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic has overwhelmed existing medical facilities and forced clinicians, patients, and families to make pivotal decisions with limited time and information. Main body: While machine learning (ML) methods have been previously used to augment clinical decisions, there is now a demand for “Emergency ML.” Throughout the patient care pathway, there are opportunities for ML-supported decisions based on collected vitals, laboratory results, medication orders, and comorbidities. With rapidly growing datasets, there also remain important considerations when developing and validating ML models. Conclusion: This perspective highlights the utility of evidence-based prediction tools in a number of clinical settings, and how similar models can be deployed during the COVID-19 pandemic to guide hospital frontlines and healthcare administrators to make informed decisions about patient care and managing hospital volume.
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- Debnath, S., Barnaby, D. P., Coppa, K., Makhnevich, A., Kim, E. J., Chatterjee, S., Tóth, V., Levy, T. J., Paradis, M. D., Cohen, S. L., Hirsch, J. S., Zanos, T. P., the Northwell COVID-19 Research Consortium, Becker, L. B., Cookingham, J., Davidson, K. W., Dominello, A. J., Falzon, L., McGinn, T., Mogavero, J. N., & Osorio, G. A.
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- Northwell Health (US)
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- Zanos, Theodoros P.
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- Bioelectronic Medicine
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- 2020-07-10
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- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R24AG064191)
- U.S. National Library of Medicine (R01LM012836)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, machine learning, clinical decision-making, clinical prediction model, model validation, hospital resource allocation, health care administrators, care pathways
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