Reporting guideline for chatbot health advice studies: the CHART statement

The CHART Collaborative (2025) Reporting guideline for chatbot health advice studies: the CHART statement. JAMA network open, 8 (8). ISSN 2574-3805

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Abstract

Importance The rise in chatbot health advice (CHA) studies is accompanied by heterogeneity in reporting standards, impacting their interpretability. Objective To provide reporting recommendations for studies evaluating the performance of generative artificial intelligence (AI)–driven chatbots when summarizing clinical evidence and providing health advice. Design, Setting, and Participants CHART was developed in several phases after performing a comprehensive systematic review to identify variation in the conduct, reporting, and methodology in CHA studies. Findings from the review were used to develop a draft checklist that was revised through an international, multidisciplinary modified asynchronous Delphi consensus process of 531 stakeholders, 3 synchronous panel consensus meetings of 48 stakeholders, and subsequent pilot testing of the checklist. Results CHART includes 12 items and 39 subitems to promote transparent and comprehensive reporting of CHA studies. These include title (subitem 1a), abstract or summary (subitem 1b), background (subitems 2ab), model identifiers (subitem 3ab), model details (subitems 4abc), prompt engineering (subitems 5ab), query strategy (subitems 6abcd), performance evaluation (subitems 7ab), sample size (subitem 8), data analysis (subitem 9a), results (subitems 10abc), discussion (subitems 11abc), disclosures (subitem 12a), funding (subitem 12b), ethics (subitem 12c), protocol (subitem 12d), and data availability (subitem 12e). Conclusions and Relevance The CHART checklist and corresponding methodological diagram were designed to support key stakeholders including clinicians, researchers, editors, peer reviewers, and readers in reporting, understanding, and interpreting the findings of CHA studies.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The CHART Collaborative
Divisions:	Health Policy
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2025 23:13
Last Modified:	20 Aug 2025 23:13
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/129186

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