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ArticleBreathe (Sheffield, England)2026

Clinical performance and practical limitations of large language models in respiratory medicine.

Simon Høj, Casper Jensen, Howraman Meteran

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Article in Breathe (Sheffield, England), 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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3 authors.

Simon HøjDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery and Audiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Casper JensenPulmonary Research Unit (PLUZ), Department of Respiratory Medicine, Zealand University Hospital, Naestved, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2837-3175
Howraman MeteranDepartment of Respiratory Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital-Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5994-8064

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This Journal club discusses three recent studies evaluating large language models (LLMs) in respiratory medicine and allergy. In COPD, ChatGPT-3.5 was rated higher than Bing Chat by respiratory specialists for accuracy, completeness, clarity and safety, although clinically important omissions remained. In asthma, 13 out of 14 models exceeded 85% accuracy on multiple-choice questions and five exceeded 95%, but performance was lower and more variable in objective structured clinical examinations. In allergen immunotherapy, ChatGPT-4 achieved fair overall DISCERN quality, but showed insufficient

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PMID42871864
PMCPMC13659368

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