AI-Assisted Thematic Analysis in a Quality Improvement Evaluation: Replicable Findings and Subtle Misrepresentations.

Abstract

Using artificial intelligence to identify themes in interview data from a quality improvement program evaluation produced 4 replicable themes grounded in the data. However, 2 consistently identified themes resulted from subtle misrepresentations and could have easily misled results without thorough data knowledge and output audit by the human research team.