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Matching patients to clinical trials with large language models.
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Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2024 Nov 18; Vol. 15 (1), pp. 9074. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Nov 18. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Patient recruitment is challenging for clinical trials. We introduce TrialGPT, an end-to-end framework for zero-shot patient-to-trial matching with large language models. TrialGPT comprises three modules: it first performs large-scale filtering to retrieve candidate trials (TrialGPT-Retrieval); then predicts criterion-level patient eligibility (TrialGPT-Matching); and finally generates trial-level scores (TrialGPT-Ranking). We evaluate TrialGPT on three cohorts of 183 synthetic patients with over 75,000 trial annotations. TrialGPT-Retrieval can recall over 90% of relevant trials using less than 6% of the initial collection. Manual evaluations on 1015 patient-criterion pairs show that TrialGPT-Matching achieves an accuracy of 87.3% with faithful explanations, close to the expert performance. The TrialGPT-Ranking scores are highly correlated with human judgments and outperform the best-competing models by 43.8% in ranking and excluding trials. Furthermore, our user study reveals that TrialGPT can reduce the screening time by 42.6% in patient recruitment. Overall, these results have demonstrated promising opportunities for patient-to-trial matching with TrialGPT.<br />Competing Interests: Competing interests The authors declare no competing interests.<br /> (© 2024. This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply.)
- Subjects :
- Humans
Language
Algorithms
Clinical Trials as Topic
Patient Selection
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2041-1723
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Nature communications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 39557832
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53081-z