High patient and surgeon satisfaction with ChatGPT-generated responses to real patient questions regarding total knee arthroplasty.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chat-Generative Pretrained Transformer (ChatGPT) has proven its value in medical information acquisition and perioperative education. This study aimed to evaluate correlated factors to explore the value of ChatGPT in patient communication.

Methods

Perioperative questions were collected from 44 consecutive total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients (mean age: 68.5 ± 8.2 years; 65% female; mean education: 4.8th grade) at a tertiary hospital between January and March 2024. Each patient provided five questions, for a total of 220 questions. The selected questions were answered by ChatGPT-3.5. Questionnaires were created and sent to 81 surgeons across hospital tiers (III-A, II-A, III-B) and 53 perioperative TKA patients who were not among the patients who provided the orig

SUBMITTER: Jiang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12683780 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature