Comparison of physician and computer diagnostic accuracy. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Comparison of physician and computer diagnostic accuracy. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published October 2016

Comparison of physician and computer diagnostic accuracy.

Semigran HL, Levine DM, Nundy S, Mehrotra A. JAMA Intern Med. 2016 Oct 11; [Epub ahead of print].

Information technology approaches have been advocated as a means of preventing diagnostic error. This study compared the diagnostic accuracy of computerized symptom checkers(software programs that use diagnostic algorithms based on patients' self-reported symptoms to suggest diagnoses) with that of practicing physicians. Physicians consistently arrived at more accurate diagnoses across a variety of simulated cases.

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