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ArticleBMJ evidence-based medicine2025

From promise to practice: challenges and pitfalls in the evaluation of large language models for data extraction in evidence synthesis.

Gerald Gartlehner, Leila Kahwati, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, Karen Crotty, Rainer Hilscher, Shannon Kugley, Meera Viswanathan, Ian Thomas, Amanda Konet, Graham Booth and 1 more

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Article in BMJ evidence-based medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Gerald GartlehnerRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA gerald.gartlehner@donau-uni.ac.at.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5531-3678
Leila KahwatiRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6963-2848
Barbara Nussbaumer-StreitDepartment for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation, University for Continuing Education Krems, Krems, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7622-843X
Karen CrottyRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Rainer HilscherRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Shannon KugleyRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Meera ViswanathanRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3486-8126
Ian ThomasRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Amanda KonetRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Graham BoothRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Robert ChewRTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

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PMCPMC12703319

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