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Is It Ethical to Use Prognostic Estimates from Machine Learning to Treat Psychosis?

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Machine learning is a method for predicting clinically relevant variables, such as opportunities for early intervention, potential treatment response, prognosis, and health outcomes. This commentary examines the following ethical questions about machine learning in a case of a patient with new onset psychosis: (1) When is clinical innovation ethically acceptable? (2) How should clinicians communicate with patients about the ethical issues raised by a machine learning predictive model?

Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic

DOI: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.804

Authors: Nicole Martinez-Martin, Laura B. Dunn, Laura Weiss Roberts

Institutions: Stanford University, Stanford Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

Subfield: Health Informatics

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: National Human Genome Research Institute