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Journal of medical ethics

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Ethics of the algorithmic prediction of goal of care preferences: from theory to practice.

Journal of medical ethics
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly gaining ground in healthcare and clinical decision-making. However, it is still unclear in what way AI can or should support decision-making that is based on incapacitated patients' values and goals of...

Responsibility, second opinions and peer-disagreement: ethical and epistemological challenges of using AI in clinical diagnostic contexts.

Journal of medical ethics
In this paper, we first classify different types of second opinions and evaluate the ethical and epistemological implications of providing those in a clinical context. Second, we discuss the issue of how artificial intelligent (AI) could replace the ...

Ethical impact of suboptimal referrals on delivery of care in radiology department.

Journal of medical ethics
The referral is the key source of information that enables radiologists and radiographers to provide quality services. However, the frequency of suboptimal referrals is widely reported. This research reviews the literature to illuminate the challenge...

Before and beyond trust: reliance in medical AI.

Journal of medical ethics
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing healthcare and the practice of medicine as data-driven science and machine-learning technologies, in particular, are contributing to a variety of medical and clinical tasks. Such advancements have also raised ...

Machine learning in medicine: should the pursuit of enhanced interpretability be abandoned?

Journal of medical ethics
We argue why interpretability should have primacy alongside empiricism for several reasons: first, if machine learning (ML) models are beginning to render some of the high-risk healthcare decisions instead of clinicians, these models pose a novel med...

Randomised controlled trials in medical AI: ethical considerations.

Journal of medical ethics
In recent years, there has been a surge of high-profile publications on applications of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for medical diagnosis and prognosis. While AI provides various opportunities for medical practice, there is an emerging conse...