Medical Economics January 24, 2025
A Mass General Brigham study suggests that LLMs could be used to aid clinicians during physical exams.
During any patient visit, a physical examination is critical in evaluating a patient’s health, determining what conditions they may have and providing guidance to further clinical management. However, if a clinician is young, generally inexperienced or simply lacks specialized training in a specific area, researchers from Mass General Brigham suggest that large language models (LLMs) could be used as aids during physical exams.
The study, published in the Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence, put the LLM “GPT-4” to the test, prompting the program to recommend physical exam instructions based on patients’ primary symptoms.
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