From STAT:
STAT spoke with 15 clinicians, researchers, developers, and experts in AI and palliative care to understand how such AI models are being deployed at Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, and a community oncology practice near Seattle — and how they might be received by patients and providers if they’re rolled out more widely.
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The decision to initiate an advance care planning conversation is also informed by many other factors, such as a clinician’s judgment and a patient’s symptoms and lab results.
“What we explicitly said to clinicians was: ‘If the algorithm would be the only reason you’re having a conversation with this patient, that’s not enough of a good reason to have the conversation — because the algorithm could be wrong,’” said Penn’s Ravi Parikh.