Becker's Healthcare October 8, 2024
ChatGPT is more likely to overprescribe medications and imaging and is less effective than a resident in emergency department care, a University of California San Francisco study found.
The study, published Oct. 8 in Nature Communications, compiled a set of 1,000 of UCSF Health’s ED visits with the same ratio of “yes” to “no” responses for decision on admission, radiology and antibiotics. Researchers entered the physician’s notes on each patient’s symptoms and examination findings into ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4.
The study...