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Medical machine learning fails to meaningfully impact clinical care despite thousands of published papers.
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Clinicians should await rigorous prospective validation before adopting ML tools; challenges assumptions of rapid translation from abundant research.
Rahul C. Deo (2015) studied this question. Despite thousands of papers on machine learning in medicine, very few have significantly impacted clinical care compared to its success in other industries.
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