While useful in analyzing population trends in relative body weight, BMI possesses multiple shortcomings when used as an individualized health screening tool.
AMA J Ethics. 2023;25(7):E545-549. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2023.545.
Dr Chloë G. K. Atkins joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Dr Sunit Das: “What Should Clinicians and Patients Know About the Clinical Gaze, Disability, and Iatrogenic Harm When Making Decisions?”
Natural language processing can be used not only to extract quantifiable facts from individual medical records but also to study variation in a data set.
AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(3):281-288. doi:
10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.3.stas1-1703.