Can ChatGPT Help Adults Manage Their Liver Disease?
Cirrhosis of the liver and liver cancer are two serious medical conditions that can greatly impact a patient's life. Patients with these diagnoses often require extensive treatment, which can be challenging to manage. To help patients understand these diseases and their treatment options, researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot called ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool that can provide personalized responses to patient questions. In a recent study, researchers found that ChatGPT can deliver correct responses to commonly asked patient questions about cirrhosis and liver cancer. The chatbot's answers to 164 questions were graded by two human liver transplant specialists. Overall, ChatGPT answered about three-quarters of the questions correctly, generating high levels of accuracy in 91 questions.
While the AI tool falls short in providing tailored recommendations, it can still provide empathetic and practical advice to patients and caregivers about next steps and how to adjust to a new diagnosis. For example, Chatbot can offer anxiety-reducing and comforting advice to patients who have just received a diagnosis of liver cancer.
“Patients with cirrhosis and/or liver cancer and their caregivers often have unmet needs and insufficient knowledge about managing and preventing complications of their disease," said study researcher Brennan Spiegel, MD, with Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles. “We found ChatGPT can help empower patients and improve health literacy for different populations."
However, it's important to note that ChatGPT is not a replacement for a physician. It can be a supplement for doctors that provides access to reliable and accurate health information that is easy for many to understand. Doctors can use ChatGPT to help empower patients and improve their health literacy, which can help patients manage their conditions and improve their health outcomes.
Overall, ChatGPT can be a very useful tool for patients with cirrhosis and/or liver cancer. It can help patients and caregivers better understand these diseases and their treatment options, and provide a source of comfort and empathy during a challenging time.
