Would you trust an AI doctor? New research shows patients are split PLOSDigiHealth
To the extent that patients retain the right of informed consent with regard to their own healthcare, much will depend on patient attitudes towards AI. To that end, we used qualitative and quantitative methods to study diverse patient populations’ views about AI in medicine.
We chose this mixed-methods design for a few reasons. First, because this is the first study of its kind, we wanted to ensure that the vignettes driving our quantitative survey were realistic and intuitive; the qualitative pre-study helped us to gauge participant reaction. Second, large-scale quantitative surveys often raise a number of questions about why people respond the way they do.
After getting informed consent, each interview began with an open-ended question asking the participant to think back to a difficult medical decision, and in particular “who or what influenced your decision?” This prompted a wide array of responses. The most common influence on participants’ decision-making was their primary care physician, though several also noted family and friends influencing their decision.
We presented another vignette involving sleep apnea, where participants were asked whether they’d rather visit a traditional sleep clinic requiring an overnight stay away from home and interpretation by a human physician versus an at-home device that relies on self-placed sensors and AI diagnostic interpretation.
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