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ReviewHealth care science2023

Large language models in health care: Development, applications, and challenges.

Rui Yang, Ting Fang Tan, Wei Lu, Arun James Thirunavukarasu, Daniel Shu Wei Ting, Nan Liu

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Review in Health care science, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 126 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

126 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Rui YangDepartment of Biomedical Informatics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine National University of Singapore Singapore Singapore.
Ting Fang TanSingapore National Eye Center, Singapore Eye Research Institute Singapore Health Service Singapore Singapore.
Wei LuStatNLP Research Group Singapore University of Technology and Design Singapore.
Arun James ThirunavukarasuUniversity of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Cambridge UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8968-4768
Daniel Shu Wei TingSingapore National Eye Center, Singapore Eye Research Institute Singapore Health Service Singapore Singapore.
Nan LiuDuke-NUS Medical School Centre for Quantitative Medicine Singapore Singapore.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3610-4883

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recently, the emergence of ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, has attracted significant attention due to its exceptional language comprehension and content generation capabilities, highlighting the immense potential of large language models (LLMs). LLMs have become a burgeoning hotspot across many fields, including health care. Within health care, LLMs may be classified into LLMs for the biomedical domain and LLMs for the clinical domain based on the corpora used for pre-training. In the last 3 years, these domain-specific LLMs have demonstrated exceptional performance on multiple natural language processing tasks, surpassing the performance of general LLMs as well. This not only emphasizes the significance of developing dedicated LLMs for the specific domains, but also raises expectations for their applications in health care. We believe that LLMs may be used widely in preconsultation, diagnosis, and management, with appropriate development and supervision. Additionally, LLMs hold tremendous promise in assisting with medical education, medical writing and other related applications. Likewise, health care systems must recognize and address the challenges posed by LLMs.

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PMID38939520
PMCPMC11080827

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