Chat-ePRO: Development and pilot study of an electronic patient-reported outcomes system based on ChatGPT.

J Biomed Inform

College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Electronic address:

Published: June 2024

Objective: Chatbots have the potential to improve user compliance in electronic Patient-Reported Outcome (ePRO) system. Compared to rule-based chatbots, Large Language Model (LLM) offers advantages such as simplifying the development process and increasing conversational flexibility. However, there is currently a lack of practical applications of LLMs in ePRO systems. Therefore, this study utilized ChatGPT to develop the Chat-ePRO system and designed a pilot study to explore the feasibility of building an ePRO system based on LLM.

Materials And Methods: This study employed prompt engineering and offline knowledge distillation to design a dialogue algorithm and built the Chat-ePRO system on the WeChat Mini Program platform. In order to compare Chat-ePRO with the form-based ePRO and rule-based chatbot ePRO used in previous studies, we conducted a pilot study applying the three ePRO systems sequentially at the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital to collect patients' PRO data.

Result: Chat-ePRO is capable of correctly generating conversation based on PRO forms (success rate: 95.7 %) and accurately extracting the PRO data instantaneously from conversation (Macro-F1: 0.95). The majority of subjective evaluations from doctors (>70 %) suggest that Chat-ePRO is able to comprehend questions and consistently generate responses. Pilot study shows that Chat-ePRO demonstrates higher response rate (9/10, 90 %) and longer interaction time (10.86 s/turn) compared to the other two methods.

Conclusion: Our study demonstrated the feasibility of utilizing algorithms such as prompt engineering to drive LLM in completing ePRO data collection tasks, and validated that the Chat-ePRO system can effectively enhance patient compliance.

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