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Reporting completeness of clinical trials evaluating large language model interventions in medicine: systematic review.

Clinical trials of AI language models show incomplete reporting of methods and safety data, highlighting need for transparency improvements.

This systematic review and meta-analysis examined Reporting completeness of clinical trials evaluating large language model interventions in medicine: systematic review. The abstract reports that Clinical trials of LLM interventions show modest adherence to established reporting guidelines, with persistent underreporting of LLM specific methodological details, reproducibility artefacts (protocols, data, code), and harms reporting required to support.

What the study was

Study design
Systematic review and meta-analysis
Population
Human participants
Category
Diagnostics
Maturity
Validated
Journal
BMJ

Why it surfaced

Systematic review and meta-analysis; directly matches AI/ML in clinical diagnostics and imaging. Conservative abstract-level score 8/10.

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