Publications by authors named "Peter Kaplinsky"
Importance: The mainstream use of chatbots requires a thorough investigation of their readability and quality of information.
Objective: To identify readability and quality differences in information between a free and paywalled chatbot cancer-related responses, and to explore if more precise prompting can mitigate any observed differences.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This cross-sectional study compared readability and information quality of a chatbot's free vs paywalled responses with Google Trends' top 5 search queries associated with breast, lung, prostate, colorectal, and skin cancers from January 1, 2021, to January 1, 2023.
Article Synopsis
- - Tuberculosis (TB) still causes many deaths globally, and metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) can help identify active infections and improve diagnostics, especially in difficult cases.
- - A study analyzed samples from 334 people in both TB-endemic and non-endemic areas to assess the effectiveness of mNGS for TB diagnosis, revealing that the control population's background significantly affects test results.
- - Results showed that in endemic areas, non-tuberculous mycobacterial DNA overwhelms the low levels of TB DNA in samples, making it harder to accurately diagnose TB using this method.