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ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2021

Public vs physician views of liability for artificial intelligence in health care.

Dhruv Khullar, Lawrence P Casalino, Yuting Qian, Yuan Lu, Enoch Chang, Sanjay Aneja

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Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Dhruv KhullarDivision of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0053-9028
Lawrence P CasalinoDivision of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
Yuting QianDivision of Health Policy and Economics, Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York, USA.
Yuan LuCenter for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Enoch ChangDepartment of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Sanjay AnejaCenter for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Funding

Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9M
Yale-CORE Career Development Program in Patient-Centered Outcomes ResearchK12HS023000 · AHRQ · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KRUMHOLZ, HARLAN MARC · 2014 to 2018
$3.4M
AHRQ HHS K12 HS023000NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The growing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care has raised questions about who should be held liable for medical errors that result from care delivered jointly by physicians and algorithms. In this survey study comparing views of physicians and the U.S. public, we find that the public is significantly more likely to believe that physicians should be held responsible when an error occurs during care delivered with medical AI, though the majority of both physicians and the public hold this view (66.0% vs 57.3%; P = .020). Physicians are more likely than the public to believe that vendors (43.8% vs 32.9%; P = .004) and healthcare organizations should be liable for AI-related medical errors (29.2% vs 22.6%; P = .05). Views of medical liability did not differ by clinical specialty. Among the general public, younger people are more likely to hold nearly all parties liable.

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Artificial IntelligencePhysiciansDelivery of Health CareHealth FacilitiesHumansArtificial intelligencemedical errorsmedical liabilityregulatory policy

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PMID33871009
PMCPMC8279784

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