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Adult nursing
Ghost in the inbox: AI may help alleviate the burden of patient messages
  1. Christian Rose,
  2. Carl Preiksaitis
  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Christian Rose, Emergency Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; ccrose{at}stanford.edu

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2023-103770

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    Implications for practice and research

    • AI assistants could be used to draft responses for physicians and nurses, potentially addressing a key element of burn-out.

    • Further research is needed to assess the impact of communication on healthcare outcomes and should incorporate patient evaluations and feedback.

    Context

    In the setting of increasing adoption of virtual healthcare and the surge in electronic patient messages, there has been a higher workload for physicians and nurses, contributing to burnout and potentially terse, unanswered or unhelpful patient messages. Given these challenges, there is a need to explore innovative solutions to support patient communication and alleviate this …

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    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.