Scaling Clinical Trial Matching Using Large Language Models: A Case Study in Oncology

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02180v3
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:05:45 GMT
• Title: Scaling Clinical Trial Matching Using Large Language Models: A Case Study in Oncology
• Authors: Cliff Wong, Sheng Zhang, Yu Gu, Christine Moung, Jacob Abel, Naoto Usuyama, Roshanthi Weerasinghe, Brian Piening, Tristan Naumann, Carlo Bifulco, Hoifung Poon
• Abstract summary: We conduct a systematic study on scaling clinical trial matching using large language models (LLMs) Our study is grounded in a clinical trial matching system currently in test deployment at a large U.S. health network.
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• Abstract: Clinical trial matching is a key process in health delivery and discovery. In practice, it is plagued by overwhelming unstructured data and unscalable manual processing. In this paper, we conduct a systematic study on scaling clinical trial matching using large language models (LLMs), with oncology as the focus area. Our study is grounded in a clinical trial matching system currently in test deployment at a large U.S. health network. Initial findings are promising: out of box, cutting-edge LLMs, such as GPT-4, can already structure elaborate eligibility criteria of clinical trials and extract complex matching logic (e.g., nested AND/OR/NOT). While still far from perfect, LLMs substantially outperform prior strong baselines and may serve as a preliminary solution to help triage patient-trial candidates with humans in the loop. Our study also reveals a few significant growth areas for applying LLMs to end-to-end clinical trial matching, such as context limitation and accuracy, especially in structuring patient information from longitudinal medical records.

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