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Renal failure occurs when the kidneys lose their ability to filter waste products from the blood effectively. It can be classified into two types: acute renal failure (ARF) and chronic renal failure (CRF).
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Evaluating AI Chatbot Responses to Postkidney Transplant Inquiries.
Yihua Zhan1, Xutao Chen1, Feihong Ye2
1Department of Urology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Guangzhou, China.
Transplantation Proceedings
|January 15, 2025
Summary
AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude 3.0, and Gemini Pro offer high-quality responses to kidney transplant questions, but lack actionable advice and are difficult to read. Google search did not outperform these AI tools.
Area of Science:
- Medical Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Transplantation Medicine
Background:
- Post-kidney transplantation care involves complex patient inquiries.
- Patients increasingly turn to online resources, including AI chatbots, for health information.
- Evaluating the accuracy and usability of AI-generated health information is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess the performance of AI chatbots (ChatGPT 4.0, Claude 3.0, Gemini Pro) and Google in answering common post-kidney transplant questions.
- To evaluate response quality, understandability, actionability, and readability of AI-generated content.
- To compare the capabilities of different AI models and traditional search engines for patient-specific medical queries.
Main Methods:
- A comprehensive list of 127 post-kidney transplant questions was compiled using Google and Bing.
- AI chatbots and Google provided responses to these questions.
- Response quality was rated using a 5-point Likert scale.
- Understandability and actionability were assessed using the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT).
- Readability was measured using Flesch Reading Ease and Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level metrics.
- Statistical analysis was performed using the Kruskal-Wallis test in SPSS.
Main Results:
- AI chatbots and Google provided high-quality responses (median Likert score: 4/5) and good understandability (median PEMAT score: 72.7%).
- However, responses demonstrated poor actionability (median PEMAT score: 20%) and challenging readability (median Flesch Reading Ease: 22.1; median Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 14.7).
- Claude 3.0 offered the most reliable answers, while ChatGPT 4.0 provided the most comprehensible responses.
- Google's performance was not superior to any of the AI chatbots across all evaluated metrics.
Conclusions:
- Current AI chatbots and search engines provide generally accurate but not easily actionable information for post-kidney transplant patients.
- The readability level of AI-generated responses is often too high for the general patient population.
- Further development is needed to enhance the actionability and improve the readability of AI-generated health information for transplant recipients.