New benchmarks and frameworks enhance LLM reliability in clinical settings
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Researchers have developed new benchmarks and frameworks to improve the reliability and safety of large language models (LLMs) in clinical decision-making. EHRBench and MedCase-Structured aim to evaluate LLMs on realistic electronic health record data, with EHRBench generating nearly one million question-answer items for diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis tasks. JMedEthicBench addresses the need for multi-turn conversational safety evaluations in Japanese, while SafeMed-R1 focuses on clinician-audited safety and ethics alignment. Additionally, MoBayes proposes a modular Bayesian framework to separate probabilistic reasoning from language generation for more reliable clinical decision support.
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These advancements aim to improve the safety, reliability, and equitable deployment of LLMs in healthcare by providing better evaluation tools and methods.
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Multiple research papers introducing new benchmarks, datasets, and frameworks for evaluating and improving LLMs in clinical settings.
arXiv:2605.30637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical decision-making (CDM) is central to real-world clinical workflows, where clinicians infer diagnoses, select treatments, or anticipate future health outcomes under incomplete evidence. LLMs are increasingly used to support t…
arXiv:2605.30295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) show promise for clinical reasoning and decision support, but evaluation in realistic, electronic health record-congruent settings remains limited. Existing benchmarks often rely on static datasets or …
Large language models (LLMs) show promise for clinical reasoning and decision support, but evaluation in realistic, electronic health record-congruent settings remains limited. Existing benchmarks often rely on static datasets or unstructured inputs that do not reflect the struct…
arXiv:2601.01627v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in healthcare field, it becomes essential to carefully evaluate their medical safety before clinical use. However, existing safety benchmarks remain predominantly E…
arXiv:2605.28338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models(LLMs) increasingly match expert performance on licensing examinations, yet routine clinical use remains limited because governance requires auditable reasoning, safety and ethics alignment, and resilience to ad…
arXiv:2605.28740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As large language models are increasingly deployed for clinical text, ensuring they can reliably signal their own uncertainty becomes critical. Most existing uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods are designed for open-domain gen…
As large language models are increasingly deployed for clinical text, ensuring they can reliably signal their own uncertainty becomes critical. Most existing uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods are designed for open-domain generation and cannot localize uncertainty at the tok…
arXiv:2601.08267v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While reasoning-enhanced large language models perform strongly on English medical tasks, a persistent multilingual gap remains, with substantially weaker reasoning in local languages, limiting equitable global medical deploymen…
arXiv cs.AI
TIER_1English(EN)·Yuhao Shen, Lang Cao, Simo Du, Yuqing Wang, Juexiao Zhou, Hao Peng, Yue Guo·
arXiv:2605.26567v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) encode evidence-based decision logic that clinicians apply by evaluating patient variables, conditional criteria, and recommendation rules. However, existing methods often use CPGs as free-text tr…
arXiv cs.AI
TIER_1English(EN)·Yusuf Kesmen, Fay Elhassan, Jiayi Ma, Julien Stalhandske, Yena Chang, David Sasu, Alexandra Kulinkina, Akhil Arora, Lars Klein, Mary-Anne Hartley·
arXiv:2604.20022v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for conversational clinical decision support, yet they conflate next token prediction with probabilistic decision making. We argue that this conflation reflects an archite…