Artificial Intelligence in Digital Self-Diagnosis Tools: A Narrative Overview of Reviews.

ABSTRACT: Digital self-diagnosis tools, or symptom checkers, many of which incorporate artificial intelligence technology, are intended to provide diagnostic information and triage advice to lay users. This narrative overview of reviews explores the common themes and issues raised by existing evidence synthesis literature on these tools to establish a common ground for interdisciplinary research. We searched 3 bibliographic databases (PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science) and Google Scholar using keyword combinations of artificial, self-diagnosis, intelligence, and machine learning for publications from 2019 to 2023. We included systematic reviews, meta-analyses, scoping reviews, narrative syntheses, and opinion pieces that discussed tools where users proactively entered per

SUBMITTER: Mentzou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12271431 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature