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Abstract - From Days to Minutes: An Autonomous AI Agent Achieves Reliable Clinical Triage in Remote Patient Monitoring
Background: Remote patient monitoring (RPM) generates vast data, yet landmark trials (Tele-HF, BEAT-HF) failed because data volume overwhelmed clinical staff. While TIM-HF2 showed 24/7 physician-led monitoring reduces mortality by 30%, this model remains prohibitively expensive and unscalable. Methods: We developed Sentinel, an autonomous AI agent using Model Context Protocol (MCP) for contextual triage of RPM vitals via 21 clinical tools and multi-step reasoning. Evaluation included: (1) self-consistency (100 readings x 5 runs); (2) comparison against rule-based thresholds; and (3) validation against 6 clinicians (3 physicians, 3 NPs) using a connected matrix design. A leave-one-out (LOO) analysis compared the agent against individual clinicians; severe overtriage cases underwent independent physician adjudication. Results: Against a human majority-vote standard (N=467), the agent achieved 95.8% emergency sensitivity and 88.5% sensitivity for all actionable alerts (85.7% specificity). Four-level exact accuracy was 69.4% (quadratic-weighted kappa=0.778); 95.9% of classifications were within one severity level. In LOO analysis, the agent outperformed every clinician in emergency sensitivity (97.5% vs. 60.0% aggregate) and actionable sensitivity (90.9% vs. 69.5%). While disagreements skewed toward overtriage (22.5%), independent adjudication of severe gaps (>=2 levels) validated agent escalation in 88-94% of cases; consensus resolution validated 100%. The agent showed near-perfect self-consistency (kappa=0.850). Median cost was $0.34/triage. Conclusions: Sentinel triages RPM vitals with sensitivity exceeding individual clinicians. By automating systematic context synthesis, Sentinel addresses the core limitation of prior RPM trials, offering a scalable path toward the intensive monitoring shown to reduce mortality while maintaining a clinically defensible overtriage profile.
从数天到数分钟:自主AI助手在远程患者监护中实现可靠的临床分诊 /
From Days to Minutes: An Autonomous AI Agent Achieves Reliable Clinical Triage in Remote Patient Monitoring
1️⃣ 一句话总结
这篇论文开发了一个名为Sentinel的自主AI助手,它能够像医生一样分析远程监护患者的生命体征数据,快速、准确且低成本地识别出需要紧急处理的病例,为解决以往因数据量过大导致人工处理失败的问题提供了可扩展的自动化方案。