To explain or not to explain?—Artificial intelligence explainability in clinical decision support systems
Explainability for artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is a hotly debated topic. Our paper presents a review of the key arguments in favor and against explainability for AI-powered Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) applied to a concrete use case, namely an AI-powered CDSS currently used in the emergency call setting to identify patients with life-threatening cardiac arrest. More specifically, we performed a normative analysis using socio-technical scenarios to provide a nuanced accoun
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Published: 17 February 2022
Source: OpenAlex
Category: Research
Topics: Healthcare · Transparency
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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ethics.ai (17 February 2022), “To explain or not to explain?—Artificial intelligence explainability in clinical decision support systems,” evidence record 9259, https://ethics.ai/record/9259 (originally published by OpenAlex).
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