An artificial intelligence based app for skin cancer detection evaluated in a population based setting

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作者
Gregoor, Anna M. Smak M. [1 ]
Sangers, Tobias E. [1 ]
Bakker, Lytske J. [2 ]
Hollestein, Loes [1 ]
Uyl-de Groot, Carin A. A. [2 ]
Nijsten, Tamar [1 ]
Wakkee, Marlies [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Med Ctr Rotterdam, Erasmus MC Canc Inst, Dept Dermatol, Rotterdam, Netherlands
[2] Erasmus Univ, Erasmus Sch Hlth Policy & Management, Rotterdam, Netherlands
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COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS;
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10.1038/s41746-023-00831-w
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R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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Artificial intelligence (AI) based algorithms for classification of suspicious skin lesions have been implemented in mobile phone apps (mHealth), but their effect on healthcare systems is undocumented. In 2019, a large Dutch health insurance company offered 2.2 million adults free access to an mHealth app for skin cancer detection. To study the impact on dermatological healthcare consumption, we conducted a retrospective population-based pragmatic study. We matched 18,960 mHealth-users who completed at least one successful assessment with the app to 56,880 controls who did not use the app and calculated odds ratios (OR) to compare dermatological claims between both groups in the first year after granting free access. A short-term cost-effectiveness analysis was performed to determine the cost per additional detected (pre)malignancy. Here we report that mHealth-users had more claims for (pre)malignant skin lesions than controls (6.0% vs 4.6%, OR 1.3 (95% CI 1.2-1.4)) and also a more than threefold higher risk of claims for benign skin tumors and nevi (5.9% vs 1.7%, OR 3.7 (95% CI 3.4-4.1)). The costs of detecting one additional (pre)malignant skin lesion with the app compared to the current standard of care were euro2567. Based on these results, AI in mHealth appears to have a positive impact on detecting more cutaneous (pre)malignancies, but this should be balanced against the for now stronger increase in care consumption for benign skin tumors and nevi.
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