Attitudes and Acceptance Towards Artificial Intelligence in Medical Care

BACKGROUND

Artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine is a very topical issue. As far as the attitudes and perspectives of the different stakeholders in healthcare are concerned, there is still much to be explored.

OBJECTIVE

Our aim was to determine attitudes and aspects towards acceptance of AI applications from the perspective of physicians in university hospitals.

METHODS

We conducted individual exploratory expert interviews. Low fidelity mockups were used to show interviewees potential application areas of AI in clinical care.

RESULTS

In principle, physicians are open to the use of AI in medical care. However, they are critical of some aspects such as data protection or the lack of explainability of the systems.

CONCLUSION

Although some trends in attitudes e.g., on the challenges or benefits of using AI became clear, it is necessary to conduct further research as intended by the subsequent PEAK project.

Randomized comparison of different prostaglandin analogues and laminaria tent for preoperative cervical dilatation. World Health Organization Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction: Task Force on Prostaglandins for Fertility Regulation

In an eleven-centre study, 627 nulliparous subjects in the 8th to 12th week of gestation admitted for termination of pregnancy were allocated to one of five treatments to induce pre-operative cervical dilatation. The treatments were: 0.5 mg PGE2 methyl sulphonylamide; 1.0 mg PGE1 methyl ester; 30 mg 9-methylene PGE2 free acid, 0.5 mg 15-methyl PGF2 alpha; a single medium-sized laminaria tent. The results indicate that the three PGE analogues are at least equally effective as one medium sized laminaria tent and more effective than 0.5 mg 15-methyl PGF2 alpha in producing adequate pre-operative cervical dilatation prior to vacuum aspiration. It is concluded that both pre-treatment with prostaglandin analogues and laminaria tent are effective methods for preoperative cervical dilatation and both types of treatment are associated with a low incidence of side effects. Prostaglandin analogue treatment can be administered by paramedical personnel but laminaria tent insertion has to be performed by medical staff.