%0 Journal Article
%T Will I soon be out of my job? Quality and guideline conformity of ChatGPT therapy suggestions to patient inquiries with gynecologic symptoms in a palliative setting.
%A Braun EM
%A Juhasz-Böss I
%A Solomayer EF
%A Truhn D
%A Keller C
%A Heinrich V
%A Braun BJ
%J Arch Gynecol Obstet
%V 309
%N 4
%D 2024 Apr
%M 37975899
%F 2.493
%R 10.1007/s00404-023-07272-6
%X OBJECTIVE: The market and application possibilities for artificial intelligence are currently growing at high speed and are increasingly finding their way into gynecology. While the medical side is highly represented in the current literature, the patient's perspective is still lagging behind. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the recommendations of ChatGPT regarding patient inquiries about the possible therapy of gynecological leading symptoms in a palliative situation by experts.
METHODS: Case vignettes were constructed for 10 common concomitant symptoms in gynecologic oncology tumors in a palliative setting, and patient queries regarding therapy of these symptoms were generated as prompts for ChatGPT. Five experts in palliative care and gynecologic oncology evaluated the responses with respect to guideline adherence and applicability and identified advantages and disadvantages.
RESULTS: The overall rating of ChatGPT responses averaged 4.1 (5 = strongly agree; 1 = strongly disagree). The experts saw an average guideline conformity of the therapy recommendations with a value of 4.0. ChatGPT sometimes omits relevant therapies and does not provide an individual assessment of the suggested therapies, but does indicate that a physician consultation is additionally necessary.
CONCLUSIONS: Language models, such as ChatGPT, can provide valid and largely guideline-compliant therapy recommendations in their freely available and thus in principle accessible version for our patients. For a complete therapy recommendation, an evaluation of the therapies, their individual adjustment as well as a filtering of possible wrong recommendations, a medical expert's opinion remains indispensable.