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It seems like this should be a sepsis-risk calculation then, based on extrinsic factors (age, admittance reason, etc.); rather than intrinsic factors (hr, bp..)
by mjburgess 5y ago
It seems like this should be a sepsis-risk calculation then, based on extrinsic factors (age, admittance reason, etc.); rather than intrinsic factors (hr, bp..).
The problem here then, i'd guess, is how many of those extrinsic factors are unmeasurable in practice; and how little data we'd have on them.
- joshgel 5y agoBasically everyone admitted to the hospital is at some level or risk from sepsis which is why the proxy markers become important.
- stuartbman 5y agoSure, and there's a lot of work in this area to predict sepsis in specific subgroups, but as with a lot of AI I think we're a long, long way off a 'general purpose' sepsis detector. For various reasons sepsis just presents differently in different patient groups so one person's risk factor is another's protective factor