Northwestern University and Chicago-based health system Endeavor Health have developed a new computer program that can help doctors identify Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. A debilitating, often fatal lung condition, ARDS is common in intensive care patients.
To develop the program, Northwestern University researchers, who specialize in data science and smart tools for healthcare. Their new algorithm, built on clinical guidelines used by ICU doctors, looks back at patient records to automatically identify those who had ARDS while they were on ventilators.
The team tested their program on medical data from a hospital outside the Endeavor Health and Northwestern systems and found it correctly diagnosed 93.5% of true ARDS cases and only made mistakes (false alarms) about 17% of the time.
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