Artificial intelligence in the GPs office: a retrospective study on diagnostic accuracy

On a typical day, general practitioners (GPs) make multiple decisions when diagnosing and treating patients. They have limited access to immediate imaging diagnostics and tests and rely more on the patient's history and clinical examination than the second and tertiary stages of healthcare. To establish a diagnosis, a GP starts with the chief complaint, makes a hypothesis with a perceptual list of differential diagnoses, and asks the patient a series of targeted questions to include or exclude diagnoses. The GP then performs a clinical examination to confirm further or refute diagnoses while deciding if further diagnostic tests are needed. When the GP has reached a diagnostic conclusion, with a reasonable degree of certainty, he makes the diagnosis.