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Reference quality of OpenEvidence across five medical specialties.

Tamir Lotan, Mahmud Omar, Yiftach Barash, Jonathan B Kruskal, Muneeb Ahmed, Olga R Brook, Eyal Klang, Alon Gorenshtein

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Article in npj health systems, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed.

No citing paper in PubMed yet.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Tamir LotanGray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.
Mahmud OmarBRIDGE GenAI Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Yiftach BarashBRIDGE GenAI Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Jonathan B KruskalDepartment of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Muneeb AhmedDepartment of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Olga R BrookDepartment of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Eyal Klang *BRIDGE GenAI Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. eklang@bidmc.harvard.edu.
Alon Gorenshtein *BRIDGE GenAI Lab, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. agorensh@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

OpenEvidence (OE) is a retrieval-augmented clinical AI tool. We evaluated the references OE returned to 150 standardized prompts across five specialties, analyzing all 4979 citations. No reference was confirmed as fabricated; three abstracts had attribution errors. Most references were recent and high-impact, though journal concentration varied by specialty. This study assessed reference existence and characteristics, not whether references support OE's clinical claims - a benchmark for evaluating clinical AI tools.

Identifiers

PMID42686938
PMCPMC13538487

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.