CliniDigest: A Case Study in Large Language Model Based Large-Scale Summarization of Clinical Trial Descriptions

Renee D. White, Tristan Peng, Pann Sripitak, Alexander Rosenberg Johansen, Michael Snyder
7/26/2023
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A clinical trial is a study that evaluates new biomedical interventions. To design new trials, researchers draw inspiration from those current and completed. In 2022, there were on average more than 100 clinical trials submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov every day, with each trial having a mean of approximately 1500 words [1]. This makes it nearly impossible to keep up to date. To mitigate this issue, we have created a batch clinical trial summarizer called CliniDigest using GPT-3.5. CliniDigest is, to our knowledge, the first tool able to provide real-time, truthful, and comprehensive summaries of clinical trials. CliniDigest can reduce up to 85 clinical trial descriptions (approximately 10,500 words) into a concise 200-word summary with references and limited hallucinations. We have tested CliniDigest on its ability to summarize 457 trials divided across 27 medical subdomains. For each field, CliniDigest generates summaries of $μ=153,\ σ=69 $ words, each of which utilizes $μ=54\%,\ σ=30\% $ of the sources. A more comprehensive evaluation is planned and outlined in this paper.

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@article{white2023clinidigest,
  title  = {CliniDigest: A Case Study in Large Language Model Based Large-Scale Summarization of Clinical Trial Descriptions},
  author = {Renee D. White and Tristan Peng and Pann Sripitak and Alexander Rosenberg Johansen and Michael Snyder},
  year   = {2023},
  eprint = {2307.14522},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.14522v2}
}

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