How does your doctor measure up against an App in diagnostic accuracy?

[AussieNeil]

Here's an interesting report comparing the diagnostic accuracy of physicians with symptom checkers: jamanetwork.com/journals/ja...

Reassuringly, 'Physicians listed the correct diagnosis first more often across all vignettes compared to symptom checkers (72.1% vs 34.0%) as well as in the top three diagnoses listed (84.3% v 51.2%)'.

The symptom checker validation report can be found here:

bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h34...

The standardized patient vignettes used, along with the diagnosis and triage accuracy for each symptom checker can be found here:

bmj.com/content/bmj/suppl/2...

Slashdot discussion:

science.slashdot.org/story/...

Neil

[wroxham-gb]

Stunning and different photo Neil.

Sue

[AussieNeil Administrator in reply to wroxham-gb]

Glad you liked nature's crystal ball; a drop of water on a farm fence wire capturing in miniature the gum trees in the paddock.