How Can Palliative Care Help Me?
This JAMA Internal Medicine Patient Page describes details of palliative care, including who it can benefit and when it should be considered. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - September 11, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Association of Gestational Diabetes With Long-Term Risk of Mortality
This cohort study examines the mortality, morbidity, and other outcomes associated with reproductive characteristics and lifestyle factors among female nurses who participated in the Nurses ’ Health Study II. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - September 11, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Opt-Out vs Opt-In Outreach Strategies for Breast Cancer Screening
This randomized clinical trial compares rates of adherence to recommended breast cancer screening when using an opt-out automatic referral strategy compared with an opt-in automated telephone message strategy among veterans. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - September 11, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Machine-Made Empathy? Why Medicine Still Needs Humans
In Reply Establishing a strong physician-patient relationship, which includes patients feeling heard and understood, is essential to health care. An automated tool that creates empathic language offers promising opportunities for bolstering the physician-patient relationship. We found that responses generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot were 9.8 times more likely to be considered empathetic or very empathetic than responses authored by a physician. Moreover, this difference persisted even when we compared the chatbot replies to the longest physician-authored replies. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - September 11, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
Medicine Still Needs Humans
To the Editor Can humans learn empathy from a machine? Dr Ayers and colleagues explored the comparison between physician and artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot responses to patient questions posted on a public social media forum. Their findings indicate that chatbot responses were preferred and rated significantly higher in terms of quality and empathy. We commend the authors for their innovative and timely study and would like to broaden the discussion on empathy, AI, and medicine. (Source: JAMA Internal Medicine)
Source: JAMA Internal Medicine - September 11, 2023 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research
