Reporting guideline for chatbot health advice studies

JAMA Network Open

2025-08-01

(Press-News.org) About The Article: The rise in chatbot health advice studies is accompanied by heterogeneity in reporting standards, impacting their interpretability. This article provides reporting recommendations for studies evaluating the performance of generative artificial intelligence (AI)–driven chatbots when summarizing clinical evidence and providing health advice. This article is being published jointly in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Annals of Family Medicine, BJS, BMC Medicine, BMJ Medicine, JAMA Network Open, The Lancet, NEJM-AI, and Surgical Endoscopy.

Corresponding Author: To contact the corresponding author, Bright Huo, MD, BScPharm, email brighthuo@dal.ca.

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