Reinforcement learning is applied to two large databases of electronic health records for patients admitted to an intensive care unit to identify individualized treatment strategies for correcting hypotension in sepsis.
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S.S. has received research support from the American Heart Association (Dallas) and an honorarium from AbbVie (Chicago) and has an ownership interest in Patient Ping (Boston) and Bayesian Health (Baltimore).
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Saria, S. Individualized sepsis treatment using reinforcement learning. Nat Med 24, 1641–1642 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-018-0253-x
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