Implementing Machine Learning in Health Care - Addressing Ethical Challenges

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia (D.S.C.), the Center for Biomedical Ethics (D.S.C., D.M.), and the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (N.S.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

Danton S Char et al. N Engl J Med. 2018.

. 2018 Mar 15;378(11):981-983.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1714229.

¹ From the Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia (D.S.C.), the Center for Biomedical Ethics (D.S.C., D.M.), and the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research (N.S.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.

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