Comment by JumpCrisscross

Comment by JumpCrisscross 2 months ago

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“While the nursing team usually checked blood work around noon, the technology flagged incoming results several hours beforehand”

So the blood was collected and labs done but it wasn’t scheduled to be reviewed until later?

Seems like a win-win. For those saying you don’t need AI, the alternative would be either across-the-board thresholds for flags for each line item (too many false positives) or manually setting it for each patient (too intensive).

rscho 2 months ago

Across the board thresholds is exactly what we usually have. I'm not so sure about the false positives being so high. I expect most of the effect to result from additional nurse whipping (sorry, 'targeted warning').

  • JumpCrisscross 2 months ago

    > Across the board thresholds is exactly what we usually have. I'm not so sure about the false positives being so high

    The article would have been stronger with those numbers. But I wouldn’t be convinced that a high WBC count for an average ER visitor would have been sensitive enough to trigger an alarm. The prior knowledge that it’s a cat bite is important.

    • rscho 2 months ago

      Agreed. Adaptive thresholds are better than average thresholds.