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LLMs show significant gender bias in medical triage, study finds

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A new audit called EQUITRIAGE evaluated five large language models for gender bias in emergency department triage, finding that all models exhibited bias above a 5% threshold. DeepSeek-V3.1 and Gemini-3-Flash showed significant directional female undertriage, with flip rates ranging from 9.9% to 43.8%. While demographic blinding reduced Gemini's bias, DeepSeek still showed residual bias, suggesting age as a contributing factor. The study highlights that different models have distinct underlying mechanisms for bias and emphasizes the need for per-model auditing before clinical deployment. AI

IMPACT Highlights the critical need for rigorous bias auditing in LLMs before deployment in sensitive applications like healthcare.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a fairness audit of LLMs.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Richard J. Young, Alice M. Matthews ·

    EQUITRIAGE: A Fairness Audit of Gender Bias in LLM-Based Emergency Department Triage

    arXiv:2605.03998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emergency department triage assigns patients an acuity score that determines treatment priority, and clinical evidence documents persistent gender disparities in human acuity assessment. As hospitals pilot large language models (LLM…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Alice M. Matthews ·

    EQUITRIAGE: A Fairness Audit of Gender Bias in LLM-Based Emergency Department Triage

    Emergency department triage assigns patients an acuity score that determines treatment priority, and clinical evidence documents persistent gender disparities in human acuity assessment. As hospitals pilot large language models (LLMs) as triage decision support, a critical questi…

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