Table 1.
Summary of study characteristics: design and population.
| Ref. No. | Ref., Year | Design; level of evidencea | Clinical setting | Users of AIb | Stage of clinical education | Stage of clinical use | Total, n (% male) | Age (years), race or ethnicity (%) | Study duration or follow-up |
| 1 | Bien, 2018 [23] | Modeling and evaluation; 2bc | Large academic hospital; imaging department | Orthopedic surgeons; general radiologists | Practicing physicians | Implementation | N/Rd (N/R) | N/R (N/R) | N/R |
| 2 | Hirsch, 2015 [22] | Evaluation; 4e | Large private hospital; large academic medical center; nephrology and internal medicine departments | Internal medicine physicians; nephrologists | Graduate medical education (internal medicine residents and interns; nephrology fellows) | Implementation | 12 (N/R) | N/R (N/R) | ~9 months |
| 3 | Jordan, 2010 [21] | Evaluation; 4 | Large academic hospital; cardiothoracic intensive care department | Intensive care unit nurses | Practicing nurses | Implementation | N/R (N/R) | N/R (N/R) | N/R |
| 4 | Sayres, 2019 [20] | Experimental 3-arm observational study; 2b | Large academic hospitals, large health systems, and specialist office; ophthalmology department | Ophthalmologists | Practicing physicians | Implementation | 10 (N/R) | N/R (N/R) | N/R |
aAdapted from Oxford Levels of Evidence [19].
bAI: artificial intelligence.
dLevel 2b: individual cohort, modeling, or observational studies.
cN/R: not reported.
eLevel 4: case series or poor-quality cohort studies.