The dosing of intravenous fluids and vasopressors in sepsis is a sequential decision made under uncertainty and guided largely by clinical judgment, which makes it a natural target for reinforcement learning from historical care. Because a learned policy cannot be trialed on patients, its value must be estimated off-policy, and such estimates can be fragile and optimistic.
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By Hangqi Ren, Junyi Liao
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By David J. Albers, Tell D. Bennett, Jana de Wiljes, George Hripcsak, Bradford J. Smith, Peter D. Sottile, J. N. Stroh
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