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Automating the triage of rheumatology outpatient referrals: a comparative evaluation of 23 large language models under simple and advanced prompting

Aug 2026 · medRxiv · 0 citations
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emporary LLMs categorise rheumatology referral urgency as well or better than published human triage systems, suggesting that LLM performance on this task may not require the most expensive models.

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