Can Chat GPT accurately refer patients to IR for treatment?

Chloe Cross, MD, of Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.In interventional radiology (IR), most of us quickly become accustomed to needing to explain what we do -- to other clinicians, patients, their families, and even our own families. But how do patients get their own information about IR, if at all? When a patient receives a diagnosis, they may have multiple medical specialists offering various treatment recommendations, so they may be unsure which to follow.If patients search for information using new tools like artificial intelligence, what is it telling them? How much does AI know about IR? Does it accurately communicate what conditions IR can help treat?My colleagues and I, including senior author Jenanan Vairavamurthy, MD, explored this question in a study we presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology's (SIR) 2024 annual scientific meeting [the abstract was published this month in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. We were interested in learning if the most popular AI bot, ChatGPT, refers patients to IR for treatment.We formulated a single question that patients might pose to ChatGPT: "I have [a health condition.] What types of doctors treat this?" Ultimately, we asked about 23 different diseases and disease processes such as hemoptysis, pulmonary embolism, and thoracic aortic aneurysm. We chose health conditions for which a patient might not know what type of doctor could help -- and for which an interventional radiol...
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