Reporting guideline for Chatbot Health Advice studies: the CHART statement.

Journal: BMC medicine
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: The Chatbot Assessment Reporting Tool (CHART) is a reporting guideline developed to provide reporting recommendations for studies evaluating the performance of generative artificial intelligence (AI)-driven chatbots when summarizing clinical evidence and providing health advice, referred to as Chatbot Health Advice (CHA) studies.

Authors

  • Bright Huo
    Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
  • Gary Collins
    Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • David Chartash
    Department for Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
  • Arun Thirunavukarasu
    Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Research Group, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore.
  • Annette Flanagin
    the JAMA Network; African Journal Partnership Program.
  • Alfonso Iorio
    Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
  • Giovanni Cacciamani
    Department of Urology, Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology, USC Institute of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • Xi Chen
    Department of Critical care medicine, Shenzhen Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangdong, Shenzhen, China.
  • Nan Liu
    Duke-NUS Medical School Centre for Quantitative Medicine Singapore Singapore.
  • Piyush Mathur
    Department of General Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave - E31, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA.
  • An-Wen Chan
    Department of Medicine, Women's College Research Institute Women's College Hospital University of Toronto Ontario Canadá Department of Medicine, Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canadá.
  • Christine Laine
    Annals of Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, Philadelphia, USA.
  • Daniela Pacella
    Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
  • Michael Berkwits
    Electronic Editor, JAMA and JAMA Network.
  • Stavros A Antoniou
    Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Hospital Neuwerk, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
  • Jennifer C Camaradou
    British Psychological Society, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK.
  • Carolyn Canfield
    Innovation Support Unit, Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Michael Mittelman
    American Living Organ Donor Fund, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA.
  • Timothy Feeney
    Boston Medical Center, One Boston Medical Center Pl, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
  • Elizabeth Loder
    The BMJ, London, UK.
  • Riaz Agha
    International Journal of Surgery, London, UK.
  • Ashirbani Saha
    Department of Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine, 2424 Erwin Road, Suite 302, Durham, NC, 27705, USA. ashirbani.saha@duke.edu.
  • Julio Mayol
    Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria San Carlos, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
  • Anthony Sunjaya
    George Institute for Global Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia; George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London; Harefield Respiratory Research Group, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
  • Hugh Harvey
    Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, University College London, Alexandra House, 17-19 Queen Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 3AZ, England.
  • Jeremy Y Ng
    Centre for Journalology, Methods Centre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada. Electronic address: ngjy2@mcmaster.ca.
  • Tyler McKechnie
    Division of General Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Yung Lee
    Division of General Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Nipun Verma
    Department of Hepatology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
  • Gregor Stiglic
    Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia.
  • Melissa McCradden
    Department of Bioethics, The Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  • Karim Ramji
    Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Vanessa Boudreau
    Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
  • Monica Ortenzi
    Department of Research and Development, Theator Inc., Palo Alto, CA.
  • Joerg Meerpohl
    Institute for Evidence in Medicine, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (L.S., J.S., J.M.).
  • Per Olav Vandvik
    Department of Medicine, Lovisenberg Diaconal Hospital, Oslo, Norway (P.O.V.).
  • Thomas Agoritsas
    Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
  • Diana Samuel
    The Lancet Digital Health, London, UK.
  • Helen Frankish
    The Lancet, London, UK.
  • Michael Anderson
    Department of Orthopedics, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States.
  • Xiaomei Yao
    Department of Oncology, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Center for Clinical Practice Guideline Conduction and Evaluation, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Electronic address: yaoxia@mcmaster.ca.
  • Stacy Loeb
    Department of Urology and Population Health, New York University and the Manhattan VA, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: stacyloeb@gmail.com.
  • Cynthia Lokker
    Health Information Research Unit, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: lokkerc@mcmaster.ca.
  • Xiaoxuan Liu
    Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation University of Birmingham Birmingham Reino Unido Birmingham Health Partners Centre for Regulatory Science and Innovation, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, Reino Unido.
  • Eliseo Guallar
    From the Department of Radiology (B.A.-V.), Bloomberg School of Public Health (E.G.), and Department of Medicine, Cardiology and Radiology (J.A.C.L.), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; George Washington University, DC (X.Y.); Office of Biostatistics, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, MD (C.O.W.); Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL (K.L.); Department of Cardiology, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC (W.G.H.); Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle (R.M.); Department of Radiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA (A.S.G.); Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (A.R.F.); Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY (S.S.); and Radiology and Imaging Sciences, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD (D.A.B.).
  • Gordon Guyatt
    Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.