Publications by authors named "J R Suchard"
Article Synopsis
- A significant number of consumers (48%) use generative AI for health inquiries, yet there is limited research on the quality of AI chatbot responses concerning emergency care advice.
- This study evaluated responses from four popular AI chatbots (ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing AI, and Claude AI) using 10 emergency care questions, grading them across eight performance domains.
- Results showed that chatbots excelled in clarity and understandability (85%), had moderate accuracy and completeness (50%), but struggled with source relevance and reliability (10%), and potentially presented dangerous information in 5% to 35% of their responses.
Background: For over 30 years, syringe services programs (SSPs) have served as an efficacious intervention for the prevention of HIV and Hepatitis C transmission among persons who use drugs. Despite a strong body of evidence for the effectiveness of SSPs as a preventative public health measure, numerous local and state governments in the United States continue to resist the establishment of new SSPs and aggressively pursue the closure of those already in operation.
Commentary: In Orange County, California, local officials have repeatedly mobilized in opposition of the establishment of syringe access - thereby hindering access to healthcare for thousands of predominantly unhoused individuals.
Objective: The University of California (UC) leadership sought to develop a robust educational response to the epidemic of opioid-related deaths. Because the contributors to this current crisis are multifactorial, a comprehensive response requires educating future physicians about safe and effective management of pain, safer opioid prescribing, and identification and treatment of substance use disorder (SUD).
Methods: The six UC medical schools appointed an opioid crisis workgroup to develop educational strategies and a coordinated response to the opioid epidemic.
Negligible Oleandrin Content of Hot Dogs Cooked on Nerium oleander Skewers.
J Med Toxicol
January 2021
Article Synopsis
- The Nerium oleander plant has toxic compounds called cardenolides that can poison humans if ingested.
- A study was conducted to see if hot dogs cooked on Nerium oleander skewers could contain harmful levels of oleandrin.
- Results showed that the levels of oleandrin in hot dogs were very low, suggesting that the risk of poisoning from this method of cooking is minimal and likely based on a myth.