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Quality, Accuracy, and Bias in ChatGPT-Based Summarization of Medical Abstracts

Joel Hake, Miles Crowley, Allison Coy, Denton Shanks, Aundria Eoff, Kalee Kirmer-Voss, Gurpreet Dhanda and Daniel J. Parente
The Annals of Family Medicine March 2024, 22 (2) 113-120; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.3075
Joel Hake
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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Miles Crowley
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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Allison Coy
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Denton Shanks
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Aundria Eoff
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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Kalee Kirmer-Voss
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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Gurpreet Dhanda
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
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Daniel J. Parente
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  • RE: Was population considered in this assessment?
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    • Barbara P Yawn, family physician and researcher, University of Minnesota, Dept of Family and Community Health

    Assessing the accuracy, bias and relevance from GPT 3.5 review of articles is very useful. The 70% reduction can be helpful for busy clinicians. However, often one of the first things to be reduced or removed from summaries are methods. This is very important in deciding on the relevance of the results to clinicians. What population was included--age, gender, insurance status, some metric of SES, region of the world, and exclusion criteria such as multi-morbidity. Previous studies have demonstrated that some articles include populations that are not representative of those we see in primary care.
    In this study it was not clear if this was considered by the reviewers. Was it this metric that lead to the lower relevance scores? It seems that each reviewer determined their own criteria for each aspect of their scoring.

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The Annals of Family Medicine Mar 2024, 22 (2) 113-120; DOI: 10.1370/afm.3075
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