A benchmark of online COVID-19 symptom checkers

Author:

Munsch Nicolas,Martin Alistair,Gruarin Stefanie,Nateqi Jama,Abdarahmane Isselmou,Weingartner-Ortner Rafael,Knapp Bernhard

Abstract

AbstractBackgroundA large number of online COVID-19 symptom checkers and chatbots have been developed but anecdotal evidence suggests that their conclusions are highly variable. To our knowledge, no study has evaluated the accuracy of COVID-19 symptom checkers in a statistically rigorous manner.MethodsIn this paper, we evaluate 10 different COVID-19 symptom checkers screening 50 COVID-19 case reports alongside 410 non-COVID-19 control cases.ResultsWe find that the number of correctly assessed cases varies considerably between different symptom checkers, with Symptoma (F1=0.92, MCC=0.85) showing the overall best performance followed by Infermedica (F1=0.80, MCC=0.61).

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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