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Front. Nucl. Med.
Sec. Radiopharmacy and Radiochemistry
Volume 4 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fnume.2024.1469487
This article is part of the Research Topic Radiopharmaceutical Extravasations: Impact on Patients, Providers, Payers, Radiation Safety, Research, and Regulations View all 11 articles

Can ChatGPT Help Patients Understand Radiopharmaceutical Extravasations?

Provisionally accepted
Madeleine Alvarez Madeleine Alvarez *
  • Cary Academy, Cary, United States

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    A previously published paper in the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) concluded that the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT may offer an adequate substitute for nuclear medicine staff informational counseling to patients in an investigated setting of 18 F-FDG PET/CT. To ensure consistency with the previous paper, a similar methodology was followed to evaluate ChatGPT's ability to substitute for nuclear medicine staff counseling on radiopharmaceutical extravasations. We asked ChatGPT fifteen questions regarding radiopharmaceutical extravasations. Each question was queried three times. Using the same evaluation criteria as the previously published paper, the ChatGPT responses were evaluated by two nuclear medicine trained physicians and one nuclear medicine physicist for appropriateness and helpfulness. These evaluators found ChatGPT responses to be either highly appropriate or quite appropriate in 100% of questions and very helpful or quite helpful in 93% of questions. The evaluators also rated the inconsistency across the three ChatGPT responses for each question and found irrelevant or minor inconsistencies in 87% of questions and some differences relevant to main content in the other 13% of the questions. One physician evaluated the quality of the references listed by ChatGPT and concluded that ChatGPT used fully validated references. Based on these results we concluded that ChatGPT may be a reliable resource for patients interested in radiopharmaceutical extravasations. However, ChatGPT responses on radiopharmaceutical extravasations differ significantly from SNMMI and nuclear medicine staff positions. As patients increasingly rely on the internet for medical information, these discrepancies need to be addressed.

    Keywords: Radiopharmaceutical extravasation, SNMMI, Diagnostic Imaging, medical event reporting, AI in healthcare, Nuclear medicine procedures, patient education AI

    Received: 23 Jul 2024; Accepted: 18 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Alvarez. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Madeleine Alvarez, Cary Academy, Cary, United States

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