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Machine-learning-assisted selection of antibiotic prescription

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Machine learning can use patients’ demographic information and previous clinical history to help physicians select the antibiotics most likely to successfully treat urinary tract infections, despite growing levels of resistance.

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Fig. 1: A machine-learning approach to prescribing antibiotics for UTIs.

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Didelot, X., Pouwels, K.B. Machine-learning-assisted selection of antibiotic prescription. Nat Med 25, 1033–1034 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0517-0

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