Becker's Healthcare May 8, 2024
Artificial intelligence could help triage emergency room patients, aiding providers during busy times, a new study found.
University of California, San Francisco researchers fed 10,000 pairs of deidentified ER visits into GPT-4, a large language model developed by OpenAI, asking the technology to identify which had the more severe condition, according to the May 7 JAMA Network Open study. The AI was correct 89% of the time.
Another 500-pair subset was evaluated by physicians as well as AI. The AI was right in 88% of cases, compared to 86% for physicians.
“Imagine two patients who need to be transported to the hospital but there is only one ambulance. Or a physician is on call and there are three...
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