Artificial Intelligence for American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification: Agreement with Clinician Consensus and Temporal Stability Analysis
Anne Lykke Soerensen, Christina Froeslev-Friis, Gunhild Kjaergaard Andersen, Swati Bhavsar, Lisbeth Holmgaard Quitzau, Vinayak Desurkar, Anil Rao, Sri Krishna, Reshma Bhosale, Rajesh Prabhakar Bhavsar · 2026
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Anne Lykke Soerensen and co-authors test whether AI language models grade surgical risk the way doctors do. The ASA physical status scale sums up a patient's health before anesthesia, and it guides talk and research round surgery. Yet doctors often disagree on the grade, even on the same facts. Four leading language models were given 20 standard case vignettes, with the same wording each time.
The reference was the consensus of 228 anesthesiologists from Denmark, England, and India, who graded the same cases by survey; the most common grade per case counted as truth. Each model also answered each case nine times, across three days, to test its steadiness. The top model matched consensus on 18 of 20 cases, or 90%. Two others matched on 17 of 20. A model that grades like the crowd could smooth a known source of noise in surgical care.
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| CREATOR | Anne Lykke Soerensen, Christina Froeslev-Friis, Gunhild Kjaergaard Andersen, Swati Bhavsar, Lisbeth Holmgaard Quitzau, Vinayak Desurkar, Anil Rao, Sri Krishna, Reshma Bhosale, Rajesh Prabhakar Bhavsar |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 29 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |