end-of-life care Archives - HIT Leaders and News https://us.hitleaders.news/tag/end-of-life-care/ Healthcare Innovations and technology news and views Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:44:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 Machine Learning-Triggered Reminders Improve End-of-Life Care for Patients with Cancer https://us.hitleaders.news/academic-research/38969/machine-learning-triggered-reminders-improve-end-of-life-care-for-patients-with-cancer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=machine-learning-triggered-reminders-improve-end-of-life-care-for-patients-with-cancer Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:18:29 +0000 https://us.hitleaders.news/?p=38969 Electronic nudges delivered to healthcare clinicians based on a machine learning algorithm that predicts mortality risk quadrupled rates of conversations with patients about their end-of-life care preferences, according to the long-term results of a randomized clinical trial published by Penn Medicine investigators in JAMA Oncology. The study also found that the machine learning-triggered reminders significantly decreased use of aggressive chemotherapy and other systemic therapies at end of life, which research shows is associated with poor quality of life and side effects that can lead to unnecessary hospitalizations in their final days.

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