Intensive care medicine experimental
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Intensive Care Med Exp · Dec 2019
ReviewEthical considerations about artificial intelligence for prognostication in intensive care.
Prognosticating the course of diseases to inform decision-making is a key component of intensive care medicine. For several applications in medicine, new methods from the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have already outperformed conventional prediction models. Due to their technical characteristics, these methods will present new ethical challenges to the intensivist. ⋯ AI models for prognostication will become valuable tools in intensive care. However, they require technical refinement and a careful implementation according to the standards of medical ethics.