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ArticleJMIR dermatology2024

Potential Use of ChatGPT in Responding to Patient Questions and Creating Patient Resources.

Kelly Reynolds, Trilokraj Tejasvi

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Article in JMIR dermatology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. Evaluation of ChatGPT's performance on answering pediatric urology questions based on association guidelines.Canadian Urological Association journal = Journal de l'Association des urologues du Canada · 2025
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  17. Using large language model to guide patients to create efficient and comprehensive clinical care message.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kelly ReynoldsDepartment of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9719-3720
Trilokraj TejasviDepartment of Dermatology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8186-8711

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

ChatGPT (OpenAI) is an artificial intelligence-based free natural language processing model that generates complex responses to user-generated prompts. The advent of this tool comes at a time when physician burnout is at an all-time high, which is attributed at least in part to time spent outside of the patient encounter within the electronic medical record (documenting the encounter, responding to patient messages, etc). Although ChatGPT is not specifically designed to provide medical information, it can generate preliminary responses to patients' questions about their medical conditions and can precipitately create educational patient resources, which do inevitably require rigorous editing and fact-checking on the part of the health care provider to ensure accuracy. In this way, this assistive technology has the potential to not only enhance a physician's efficiency and work-life balance but also enrich the patient-physician relationship and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

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AIartificial intelligencechatbotchatbotsChatGPTconversational agentconversational agentseducationaleducational resourcelanguage modellanguage modelsnatural language processingnatural language processing softwarepatient educationpatient handoutspatient resources

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PMID38446541
PMCPMC10955382

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