Comparison of physician and computer diagnostic accuracy.
Semigran HL, Levine DM, Nundy S, et al. Comparison of Physician and Computer Diagnostic Accuracy. JAMA Intern Med. 2016;176(12):1860-1861. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.6001.
Information technology approaches have been advocated as a means of preventing diagnostic error. This study compared the diagnostic accuracy of computerized symptom checkers (software programs that use diagnostic algorithms based on patients' self-reported symptoms to suggest diagnoses) with that of practicing physicians. Physicians consistently arrived at more accurate diagnoses across a variety of simulated cases.