, with those made by medics. The study found that ChatGPT was at least as accurate as A&E doctors in making the right diagnosis. Researchers in the Netherlands entered physicians' notes on signs, symptoms and physical examinations from 30 patients who visited an emergency department last year, as well as anonymous doctors' notes, into ChatGPT versions 3.5 and 4.0. They also provided the chatbot with results of lab tests, such as blood and urine analysis. For each case, they compared the shortlist of probable diagnoses generated by the chatbot with the shortlist made by emergency medicine doctors and to the patient's correct diagnosis. The AI analysis was compared with two clinicians who made a diagnosis based on the same information, both with and without laboratory data. Doctors had the correct diagnosis within their top five probable diagnoses in 87 per cent of cases, compared with 97 per cent for ChatGPT 3.5 and 87 per cent for ChatGPT 4.0. Overlap of diagnoses The team said that while ChatGPT was 'able to suggest medical diagnoses much like a human doctor would', more work is needed before it is applied in the real world. They said that their findings suggest that the technology could one day support doctors working in emergency medicine, potentially leading to shorter waiting times for patients. The study was led by Dr Hidde ten Berg and Dr Steef Kurstjens from Jeroen Bosch Hospital 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands. Dr ten Berg said: 'Like a lot of people, we have been trying out ChatGPT and we were intrigued to see how well it worked for examining some complex diagnostic cases. So we set up a study to assess how well the chatbot worked compared to doctors with a collection){kind=link}
Study in Netherlands suggests AI chatbot’s results on emergency treatment records could have real-world applications
ChatGPT is as good as A&E doctors at diagnosing patients, a study has suggested, with researchers saying that it could be used to slash waiting times.
Research in the Netherlands compared the accuracy of diagnoses made by the language model, which is powered by artificial intelligence (AI), with those made by medics.
The study found that ChatGPT was at least as accurate as A&E doctors in making the right diagnosis.
Researchers in the Netherlands entered physicians’ notes on signs, symptoms and physical examinations from 30 patients who visited an emergency department last year, as well as anonymous doctors’ notes, into ChatGPT versions 3.5 and 4.0.