Improving palliative care with deep learning

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue , 2018, Pages

  Avati, Anand ^a   Jung, Kenneth ^b   Harman, Stephanie ^b   Downing, Lance ^b   Ng, Andrew ^a   Shah, Nigam H ^b  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep learning; Electronic health records; Interpretation; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MACHINE LEARNING; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NIGHT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS;

CLINICAL DECISION-MAKING; DEEP LEARNING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 85058340075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12911-018-0677-8     Document Type: Article

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