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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2025

Healthcare AI, explainability, and the human-machine relationship: a (not so) novel practical challenge.

Claudia Giorgetti, Giuseppe Contissa, Giuseppe Basile

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Claudia GiorgettiCIRSFID, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Giuseppe ContissaCIRSFID, Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Giuseppe BasileDepartment of Biomedical Science and Public Health, University "Politecnica delle Marche" of Ancona, Ancona, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper focuses on the lack of explainability that afflicts machine-learning-based AI systems applied in the field of healthcare. After a brief introduction to the topic, from both a technical and legal point of view, this work aims to assess the main consequences that the lack of explainability has on the human-machine relationship in clinical care, through a practical perspective. It then questions whether explainability is truly an objective worth seeking and, if so, to what extent, taking into account the current possible solutions.

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AIevidence-based medicineexplainabilityhealthcarehuman-machine relationshipinformed choiceliabilityXAI

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PMID40093013
PMCPMC11906702

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