Language models for data extraction and risk of bias assessment in complementary medicine

Honghao Lai; Jiayi Liu; Chunyang Bai; Hui Liu; Bei Pan; Xufei Luo; Liangying Hou; Weilong Zhao; Danni Xia; Jinhui Tian; Yaolong Chen; Lu Zhang; Janne Estill; Jie Liu; Xing Liao; Nannan Shi; Xin Sun; Hongcai Shang; Zhaoxiang Bian; Kehu Yang; Luqi Huang; Long Ge

doi:10.1038/s41746-025-01457-w

Language models for data extraction and risk of bias assessment in complementary medicine

Honghao Lai, Jiayi Liu, Chunyang Bai, Hui Liu, Bei Pan, Xufei Luo, Liangying Hou, Weilong Zhao, Danni Xia, Jinhui Tian, Yaolong Chen, Lu Zhang, Janne Estill, Jie Liu, Xing Liao, Nannan Shi, Xin Sun, Hongcai Shang, Zhaoxiang Bian, Kehu YangLuqi Huang^*, Long Ge^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to enhance evidence synthesis efficiency and accuracy. This study assessed LLM-only and LLM-assisted methods in data extraction and risk of bias assessment for 107 trials on complementary medicine. Moonshot-v1-128k and Claude-3.5-sonnet achieved high accuracy (≥95%), with LLM-assisted methods performing better (≥97%). LLM-assisted methods significantly reduced processing time (14.7 and 5.9 min vs. 86.9 and 10.4 min for conventional methods). These findings highlight LLMs’ potential when integrated with human expertise.

Original language	English
Article number	74
Number of pages	8
Journal	npj Digital Medicine
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01457-w
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2025

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Lai, H., Liu, J., Bai, C., Liu, H., Pan, B., Luo, X., Hou, L., Zhao, W., Xia, D., Tian, J., Chen, Y., Zhang, L., Estill, J., Liu, J., Liao, X., Shi, N., Sun, X., Shang, H., Bian, Z., ... Ge, L. (2025). Language models for data extraction and risk of bias assessment in complementary medicine. npj Digital Medicine, 8(1), Article 74. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-025-01457-w

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