Artificial intelligence for support of the bioethical decision-making of nurses related to end of life issues
International Journal of Development Research
Artificial intelligence for support of the bioethical decision-making of nurses related to end of life issues
Article History: Received 20th September, 2020; Received in revised form 22nd October, 2020; Accepted 19th November, 2020; Published online 30th December, 2020.
Copyright © 2020, Gabriel Resende Machado et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Health professionals, especially nurses, are often compelled to make decisions in face of bioethical issues commonly related to intensive care environments. Due to their complexities and particularities, these issues end up generating great physical and emotional strain on the professional. Therefore, this study raised the hypothesis that artificial intelligence techniques could assist nurses in making bioethical decisions. For this, a group of four specialists in the field of nursing prepared and answered a questionnaire based on a hypothetical ICU scenario. The data collected from the responses were then used in the training and evaluation of five machine learning (ML) algorithms. The results culminated from a comparative study between the algorithms point to the veracity of the hypothesis raised in this research, by showing that it is possible to adopt ML algorithms to support bioethical decision making.
