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  "textContent": "Washington University in St. Louis researchers and clinicians have been incorporating data from Fitbit wristbands into machine-learning models that could predict surgical outcomes, pain after surgery and potential mental health issues, among other uses. While working with clinicians to predict pancreatic surgery outcomes, WashU researchers encountered an unexpected factor that changed their prediction model: the COVID-19 pandemic.",
  "title": "Why pandemic-era patients broke surgical AI forecasts, and what changed next"
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