pharmaphorum August 1, 2025
Manual screening of patient records for inclusion in clinical trials is a costly and inefficient process, and there have been high hopes that it could be sped up with the use of AI.
In a new study, the large-language model (LLM) ChatGPT was able to reduce the time needed to review whether a patient is suitable for a clinical trial and delivered big reductions – from an average of around 40 minutes per record to just over a minute in some cases.
However, the researchers behind the work say the LLMs still need to be backed up by manual chart reviews as they “have difficulties identifying patients who meet all eligibility criteria.”
The team from UT Southwestern Medical Centre in...







