Search Tag: prognostic algorithms
2021 28 Jun
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found that a system used to identify cases of sepsis missed most instances and frequently issued false alarms. Sepsis accounts for nearly 1 million hospitalisations in the US annually and is a major contributor to hospital length of stay, healthcare costs, and in-hospital mortality (up to 15%)....Read more
2020 29 Oct
A new risk prediction tool – COVID-19 Acuity Score (CoVA) – can help clinicians with screening outpatients to predict adverse outcomes related to COVID-19 infection, says a new study (Sun et al. 2020). You might also like: AI Tool Helps to Reduce COVID-19 Mortality "While several COVID-19 risk prediction models have been proposed...Read more