Medscape May 26, 2023
An artificial intelligence (AI) tool outperformed human call handlers in recognizing patients with stroke from calls to the emergency services, a new study shows.
The AI model correctly identified more patients who were actually having a stroke than the human call operators and also had a higher positive predictive value, a measure of the proportion of predicted positive cases that are actually positive.
“The model did a better job in both measures. It flagged fewer patients in total with a suspected stroke but correctly identified more patients who were actually having a stroke than the human dispatcher,” study co-author, Jonathan Wenstrup, MD, Copenhagen University Hospital–Herlev and Gentofte & Copenhagen Emergency Medical Services, Denmark, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology.
Wenstrup presented...
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