The emergence of large language models offers new opportunities to deliver effective healthcare information through web-based healthcare chatbots. Health information is often complex and technical, making it crucial to design human-AI interactions th...
BACKGROUND: Standardized patients (SPs) prepare medical students for difficult conversations with patients. Despite their value, SP-based simulation training is constrained by available resources and competing clinical demands. Researchers are turnin...
BACKGROUND: Effective physician-patient communication is essential in clinical practice, especially in oncology, where radiology reports play a crucial role. These reports are often filled with technical jargon, making them challenging for patients t...
BACKGROUND: Rare diseases affect fewer than 1 in 2000 individuals, but approximately 150 rare kidney diseases account for about 10% of the chronic kidney disease (CKD) population, impacting millions across Europe and globally. The scarcity of medical...
BACKGROUND: Social media is acknowledged by regulatory bodies (eg, the Food and Drug Administration) as an important source of patient experience data to learn about patients' unmet needs, priorities, and preferences. However, current methods rely ei...
At the heart of medicine lies physician-patient dialogue, where skillful history-taking enables effective diagnosis, management and enduring trust. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of diagnostic dialogue could increase accessibility and q...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The abundant potential arising from various applications of artificial intelligence is gradually influencing academic and scientific communication. This study examines the suitability of ChatGPT‑4 for generating layperson's ...
BACKGROUND: Virtual patients (VPs) are computer screen-based simulations of patient-clinician encounters. VP use is limited by cost and low scalability.
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to explore communication challenges between parents and healthcare providers in paediatric emergency departments (EDs) and to define the roles and functions of an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted communication agent ...
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence-powered conversational agents have immense potential to provide social companionship and support for older adults. However, the deployment of large language model (LLM)-based conversational robots for seniors faces...
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