Table 2.

Applications with the highest-rated and lowest-rated potential to improve patient care in the future.

Rating	Artificial intelligence (AI) application	Field of application	Responses of “rather applies“ or “fully applies“, n (%)
1	Identification of drug interactions	Medication and therapy	280 (92.4)
2	Early alarming of deterioration of patient status	ICUa/anesthesia	267 (88.1)
3	Analysis of x-rays, CTb, MRTc, sonographies	Imaging procedures	263 (86.8)
4	Analysis of ECGsd and EEGse	Other diagnostic procedures	257 (84.8)
[...]
22	Assessment of prognosis of nonmalignant diseases	Prognosis assessment	177 (58.4)
23	Automatic anesthesia administration	ICU/anesthesia	172 (56.8)
24	Triage in emergency care	Other diagnostic procedures	142 (46.9)
25	Diagnosis of psychiatric diseases	Other diagnostic procedures	62 (20.5)

^aICU: intensive care unit.

^bCT: computed tomography.

^cMRT: magnetic resonance tomography.

^dECG: electrocardiogram.

^eEEG: electroencephalogram.