Emergency nurses, doctors found to triage more precisely than AI

Vienna (dpa) – Doctors and nurses perform better overall at emergency department triage than artificial intelligence (AI), which displayed lower "overall accuracy” in a series of hospital tests. According to researchers speaking at the European Emergency Medicine Congress in Vienna, AI gave accurate responses to triage-related questions and scenarios about half the time, while nurses achieved around 65% and doctors over 70%. At a time when AI grows increasingly capable, the findings run counter to indications that many human skills could in future be rivalled by software. In tests carried out at the emergency department of Vilnius University Hospital, the doctors and nurses were asked to use the Manchester Triage System to classify patients from case studies in one of five categories from