Researchers supported by the NIHR have created an artificial intelligence system that could help identify the best way to treat patients with sepsis. The system ‘learnt’ the best treatment strategy for a patient by analysing the records of about 100,000 hospital patients in intensive care units and every single doctor’s decisions affecting them. The technology, developed by researchers at the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, was then able predict the best treatment strategy for patients, and more reliably than human doctors. The team behind the technology say the tool could be used to help doctors decide the best treatment strategy for patients. The researchers now hope to trial the system, called AI Clinician, in intensive care units in the UK.

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