Clinicians can use AI to predict COVID-19 in patients, study says

Becker's Healthcare April 14, 2022
Naomi Diaz

Clinicians can use AI to screen patients and identify the probability of COVID-19 prior to testing, according to a study published April 13 in ScienceDaily.

Researchers from the College of Health and Human Services at Fairfax, Va.-based George Mason University created algorithms to predict the probability that a patient has COVID-19, the flu, or another respiratory illness prior to testing.

Here’s what they found:

• The algorithms were created by analyzing the symptoms reported by 774 COVID-19 patients in China, 273 COVID-19 patients in the U.S., and 2,885 influenza and 884 influenza-like illnesses in U.S. patients.
• The researchers found that the algorithms helped healthcare providers triage...

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