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 using the AI Care Navigator. For example, it might ask 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.
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.
How accurate is Topic AI?
The most important thing for F2F AI is its ability to identify clinical topics that patients may mention so it doesn't miss any relevant actions. The best way to measure this is the percentage of patient requests with clinical topics present if gets right, which is called the sensitivity. The current version of Topic AI has a sensitivity of 98% across all topics (all patient requests added together first then averaged). Nothing is 100% accurate, even human GPs. It is not known how well human GPs perform the same task as Topic AI so we can compare them, but we are conducting research to find out.
Further detail on the performance of all AIs is given in the Clinical Safety Case Report.
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:
- Assign a topic that isn't there (false positive)
In this case, you should delete the topic on the 'What are the main topics of this request?' triage decision question using the cross.
- Not assign a topic that is there (false negative)
In this case, you should add 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 topics, though we are adding more all the time.
Please let us know via on the Patchs Ideas Portal if there are topics you'd like to see us add.
- Abdominal Pain
- ADHD
- Alcohol
- Allergy
- Anal Fissure
- Ankle Pain
- Anxiety
- Arm Pain
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Autism
- Back Pain
- Bacterial Vaginosis
- Balanitis
- Bell's Palsy
- Bipolar
- Bloating
- Blood Pressure (BP) - High (Hypertension)
- Blood Pressure (BP) - Low (Hypotension)
- Breast
- Broken Nose
- Bunion
- Cancer
- Cataracts
- Cervical Cancer
- Chest Pain
- Chickenpox
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
- Cold Sores
- Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill (COCP)
- Common Cold (Coryza)
- Conjunctivitis
- Constipation
- Contraception
- Cough
- COVID-19
- Crohn's Disease
- Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)
- Dementia
- Dental
- Depression
- Diabetes
- Diarrhoea
- Dizziness
- Dysphagia (Swallowing Problems)
- Earache
- Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT)
- Ear Wax
- Ectopic Pregnancy
- Eczema
- Endometriosis
- Epilepsy (Seizures)
- Epistaxis (Nosebleed)
- Erectile Dysfunction (Impotence)
- Faint
- Falls
- Farting (Flatulence)
- Feet
- Fever
- Fibroids
- Fibromyalgia
- Finger Pain
- Flat Feet
- Food Poisoning
- Foot Pain
- Fungal Nail Infection
- Gastro-oesophageal Reflux (GORD, Indigestion)
- Haematemesis
- Hair Growth
- Hair Loss
- Hand Pain
- Hay Fever
- Headache
- Head Injury
- Hearing Loss
- Heart Failure
- Hernia
- Hiccups
- Hip Pain
- Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
- Incontinence (Bowel)
- Incontinence (Urinary)
- Infectious Disease
- Infertility
- Influenza ('flu')
- Ingrown Toenail
- Insomnia
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- Jaundice
- Kidney Stones
- Knee Pain
- Leg Pain
- Leukaemia
- Lips
- Liver
- Loss of Libido
- Lymphadenopathy (Swollen Glands)
- Medication Request / Review
- Menopause
- Miscarriage
- Mole
- Mouth
- Mouth Ulcers
- Musculoskeletal (MSK)
- Nails
- Nausea
- Neck Pain
- Nosebleeds
- Numbness
- Obstretrics (Pregnancy)
- Ophthalmology
- Osteoporosis
- Ovarian Cyst
- Palliative Care
- Palpitations
- Paraesthesia (Pins And Needles)
- Parathyroid
- Pelvic Pain
- Periods - Delayed Or Stopped
- Periods - Heavy (Menorrhagia)
- Periods - Irregular
- Periods - Painful (Dysmenorrhoea)
- Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
- Phimosis
- Piles (Haemorrhoids)
- Pilonidal Sinus
- Plantar Fasciitis
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)
- Postmenopausal Bleeding
- Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)
- Progestogen-Only Pill (POP)
- Prostate
- Psoriasis
- Rash
- Rectal Bleeding
- Respiratory Tract (Chest) Infection
- Safeguarding
- Scabies
- Self Harm
- Sexually Transmitted Infection
- Shortness of Breath (SoB)
- Shoulder Pain
- Sick Note
- Sinusitis
- Skin Lesion
- Sleep Apnoea
- Sleepiness
- Smoking
- Snoring
- Sore Throat
- Stroke / TIA
- Suicidal Thoughts
- Sweating
- Tennis Elbow
- Testicular Lump
- Testicular Pain
- Test Results
- Thrush
- Thumb Pain
- Thyroid
- Tired all the time (TATT)
- Toe Pain
- Tongue
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
- Vaccine (Immunisation)
- Vaginal Discharge
- Varicocele
- Varicose Veins
- Vertigo
- Vision Loss
- Vomiting
- Weight Loss
- Wheeze
- Wound
- Wrist Pain