Friederike Eva Roch, Franziska Melanie Hahn, Katharina Jäckle, Marc-Pascal Meier, Hartmut Stinus, Wolfgang Lehmann, Ronny Perthel, Paul Jonathan Roch
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Abstract
Background: Free chatbots powered by large language models offer lateral ankle sprains (LAS) treatment recommendations but lack scientific validation.
Methods: The chatbots-Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT-were evaluated by comparing their responses to a questionnaire and their treatment algorithms against current clinical guidelines. Responses were graded on accuracy, conclusiveness, supplementary information, and incompleteness, and evaluated individually and collectively, with a 60 % pass threshold.
Results: The collective analysis of the questionnaire showed Perplexity scored significantly higher than Claude and ChatGPT (p < 0.001). In the individual analysis, Perplexity provided significantly more supplementary information than the other chatbots (p < 0.001). All chatbots met the pass threshold. In the algorithm evaluation, ChatGPT scored significantly higher than the others (p = 0.023), with Perplexity below the pass threshold.
Conclusions: Chatbots' recommendations generally aligned with current guidelines but sometimes missed crucial details. While they offer useful supplementary information, they cannot yet replace professional medical consultation or established guidelines.
期刊介绍:
Foot and Ankle Surgery is essential reading for everyone interested in the foot and ankle and its disorders. The approach is broad and includes all aspects of the subject from basic science to clinical management. Problems of both children and adults are included, as is trauma and chronic disease. Foot and Ankle Surgery is the official journal of European Foot and Ankle Society.
The aims of this journal are to promote the art and science of ankle and foot surgery, to publish peer-reviewed research articles, to provide regular reviews by acknowledged experts on common problems, and to provide a forum for discussion with letters to the Editors. Reviews of books are also published. Papers are invited for possible publication in Foot and Ankle Surgery on the understanding that the material has not been published elsewhere or accepted for publication in another journal and does not infringe prior copyright.