AJMC September 9, 2024
New findings highlight the potential role of artificial intelligence in supporting health care professionals, but thorough testing is needed before its integration into everyday clinical practice.
New research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Vienna, Austria, reveals that ChatGPT could assess complex cases of respiratory disease in children better than trainee doctors.1
To come to this finding, 6 experts in pediatric respiratory medicine provided 6 clinical scenarios of cases such as cystic fibrosis, asthma, sleep-disordered breathing, breathlessness, and chest infections, that frequently occur in children. These scenarios were posed to 10 trainee doctors with less than 4 months of pediatric clinical experience, and they were given 1 hour to solve each case using internet resources, but not...