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. 2023 Jul;29(7):1593-1594.
doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02366-9.

AI-generated text may have a role in evidence-based medicine

Yifan Peng  1 , Justin F Rousseau  2   3 , Edward H Shortliffe  4 , Chunhua Weng  5
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AI-generated text may have a role in evidence-based medicine

Yifan Peng et al. Nat Med. 2023 Jul.

Abstract

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) requires the retrieval and ranking of relevant evidence by epistemological strength, to identify the most appropriate evidence to inform guidelines and policies, with a preference for robust evidence from randomized clinical trials (RCTs), systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. The explosive growth of the scientific literature and the emergence of new sources of evidence, including social media, case reports, and large-scale observational studies, as well as the free-text nature of this large body of evidence, collectively make it difficult to appraise and select the best available evidence.

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