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Retrieval-Augmented LLMs improve clinical trial recruitment by localizing evidence in EHRs

Researchers explored retrieval-augmented large language models (LLMs) for identifying suitable patients for clinical trials from electronic health records. The study evaluated various LLMs, including general and medical-adapted versions, and tested strategies to handle long documents, such as default context windows, NER-based summarization, and dynamic evidence retrieval (RAG). The MedGemma model combined with RAG achieved the highest performance, demonstrating LLMs' potential to improve trial recruitment efficiency, particularly for criteria requiring long-term reasoning. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates LLMs' potential to streamline clinical trial recruitment by improving evidence localization in patient records.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing novel application of LLMs and retrieval augmentation for a specific problem domain.

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Retrieval-Augmented LLMs improve clinical trial recruitment by localizing evidence in EHRs

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ziyi Chen, Mengxian Lyu, Cheng Peng, Yonghui Wu ·

    Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Evidence Localization in Clinical Trial Recruitment from Longitudinal EHR Narratives

    arXiv:2604.05190v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Screening patients for enrollment is a well-known, labor-intensive bottleneck that leads to under-enrollment and, ultimately, trial failures. Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) offer a promising opportunity to …