Background <p>Large Language Models (LLMs), advanced AI tools based on transformer architectures, demonstrate significant potential in clinical medicine by enhancing decision support, diagnostics, and medical education. However, their integration into clinical workflows requires rigorous evaluation to ensure reliability, safety, and ethical alignment.</p> Objective <p>This systematic review examines the evaluation parameters and methodologies applied to LLMs in clinical medicine, highlighting their capabilities, limitations, and application trends.</p> Methods <p>A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted across PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and arXiv databases, encompassing both peer-reviewed and preprint studies. Studies were screened against predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify original research evaluating LLM performance in medical contexts.</p> Results <p>The results reveal a growing interest in leveraging LLM tools in clinical settings, with 761 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. While general-domain LLMs, particularly ChatGPT and GPT-4, dominated evaluations (93.55%), medical-domain LLMs accounted for only 6.45%. Accuracy emerged as the most commonly assessed parameter (21.78%). Despite these advancements, the evidence base highlights certain limitations and biases across the included studies, emphasizing the need for careful interpretation and robust evaluation frameworks.</p> Conclusions <p>The exponential growth in LLM research underscores their transformative potential in healthcare. However, addressing challenges such as ethical risks, evaluation variability, and underrepresentation of critical specialties will be essential. Future efforts should prioritize standardized frameworks to ensure safe, effective, and equitable LLM integration in clinical practice.</p>

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A systematic review of large language model (LLM) evaluations in clinical medicine

  • Sina Shool,
  • Sara Adimi,
  • Reza Saboori Amleshi,
  • Ehsan Bitaraf,
  • Reza Golpira,
  • Mahmood Tara

摘要

Background

Large Language Models (LLMs), advanced AI tools based on transformer architectures, demonstrate significant potential in clinical medicine by enhancing decision support, diagnostics, and medical education. However, their integration into clinical workflows requires rigorous evaluation to ensure reliability, safety, and ethical alignment.

Objective

This systematic review examines the evaluation parameters and methodologies applied to LLMs in clinical medicine, highlighting their capabilities, limitations, and application trends.

Methods

A comprehensive review of the literature was conducted across PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and arXiv databases, encompassing both peer-reviewed and preprint studies. Studies were screened against predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria to identify original research evaluating LLM performance in medical contexts.

Results

The results reveal a growing interest in leveraging LLM tools in clinical settings, with 761 studies meeting the inclusion criteria. While general-domain LLMs, particularly ChatGPT and GPT-4, dominated evaluations (93.55%), medical-domain LLMs accounted for only 6.45%. Accuracy emerged as the most commonly assessed parameter (21.78%). Despite these advancements, the evidence base highlights certain limitations and biases across the included studies, emphasizing the need for careful interpretation and robust evaluation frameworks.

Conclusions

The exponential growth in LLM research underscores their transformative potential in healthcare. However, addressing challenges such as ethical risks, evaluation variability, and underrepresentation of critical specialties will be essential. Future efforts should prioritize standardized frameworks to ensure safe, effective, and equitable LLM integration in clinical practice.