Assessing the Usability of ChatGPT Responses Compared to Other Online Information in Hand Surgery
Compared to Google, ChatGPT does not provide readable responses when providing reliable medical information. While patients can modulate ChatGPT readability with prompt engineering, this requires insight into their health literacy and is an additional barrier to accessing medical information. Medical consensus influences usability of online medical information for both Google and ChatGPT. Providers should remain aware of ChatGPT limitations in distributing medical information.
Authors
- Abhiram R. Bhashyam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9170-4745)
- Neal C. Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8967-9018)
- Oscar Shen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3854-1470)
- Ophélie Lavoie-Gagné (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1197-747X)
Institutions
- Harvard University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Hand
- Published
- 2025-04-12
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/15589447251329584
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00