ChatGPT in general surgery: a cross-sectional study assessing its response to patient questions
The artificial intelligence-based large language model ChatGPT has enormous potential to become a useful tool for providing information to patients about general surgery. However, when carefully considering its limitations, such as low readability for general audience and nonevidence-based sources of information, there must be improvements before future implementation in surgery-related patient interactions.
Authors
- Johannes Höhn
- Eric L. Wisotzky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5731-7058)
- Sebastian Lünse (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7611-1802)
- Frank Meyer
- Richard Hunger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4991-9275)
- Christoph Paasch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3104-8288)
- René Mantke (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5590-6019)
Institutions
- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (DE)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (DE)
- University Hospital Magdeburg (DE)
- Medizinische Hochschule Brandenburg Theodor Fontane (DE)
- Universitätsklinikum Brandenburg an der Havel (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Annals of Medicine and Surgery
- Published
- 2025-09-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/ms9.0000000000003939
- Primary Topic
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00