What is Topic AI?
Topic AI works out the topics of a patient request and populates the 'What are the main topics of this request?' triage decision question automatically.
What are the benefits of Topic AI?
Topic AI can be used to ask patients further questions when they submit a request. For example by asking them to complete a PHQ-9 if their request is about depression, or about back pain red flags if their request is about back pain. Click here to find out how to do this.
The benefits of this are that it can:
- Speed up the consultation process and reduce your workload by asking patients useful clinical questions automatically so you don't have to.
- Improve care quality and safety by ensuring that all patient requests are assessed in a standardised way.
What should I do if I disagree with a suggestion from Topic AI?
Because PATCHS AI is not 100% accurate (nothing is), Topic AI may:
- Assigns a topic that isn't there (false positive) - you should delete the topic on the 'What are the main topics of this request?' triage decision question.
- Not assign a topic that is there (false negative) - you should select the topic from the dropdown/search menu on the 'What are the main topics of this request?' triage decision question.
Because PATCHS is constantly learning, this will help it correct its mistakes in future.
What topics does Topic AI know?
Currently Topic AI can predict the following 92 topics, though we are adding more all the time. Please let us know via the 'Give Feedback' button if there are topics you'd like to see us add.
- Abdominal pain
- ADHD
- allergy
- Ankle pain
- Anxiety
- Asthma
- Autism
- Back pain
- Balanitis
- Bell's palsy
- Bipolar
- breast
- Broken nose
- Chest pain
- Cold
- Constipation
- Contraception
- COPD
- Cough
- COVID-19
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- Dental
- Depression
- Dermatology
- Diarrhoea and vomiting
- Dizziness
- Ear wax
- Ear, nose, and throat
- Earache
- faint
- Falls
- Feet
- Fever
- Fibromyalgia
- Finger pain
- Flu
- Food poisoning
- Foot pain
- Haematemesis
- Hand
- Hay fever
- Head injury
- Headache
- Hearing loss
- Heart failure
- Indigestion
- Infertility
- Jaundice
- Kidney stones
- Knee
- Loss of libido
- Menopause
- Mouth ulcers
- MSK
- Nails
- Nausea
- Neck
- Obstetrics
- Ophthalmology
- Osteoporosis
- Palpitations
- Pelvic pain
- Period problems
- Phimosis
- Prostate
- Rectal bleeding
- Respiratory tract infections (RTIs)
- Safeguarding
- Sexually transmitted infection
- Shortness of breath (SOB)
- shoulder
- Shoulder pain
- Sick note
- Sinusitis
- Sleep apnoea
- Sleepiness
- Smoking
- Snoring
- Soft tissue injury
- sore throat
- Stroke / TIA
- Sweating
- Tennis elbow
- Testicular pain
- Testicular lump
- Thumb pain
- Toe pain
- Urinary tract infection (UTI)
- Vaginal discharge
- Vertigo
- Weight loss
- Wrist pain
