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Toward Better Assessment of LLMs' Performance in Clinical Error Detection

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TL;DR - Standard F1-style metrics can substantially misrepresent LLM performance on clinical error detection. Paired evaluation reveals that 13 of 15 tested models performed below random pairwise discrimination, raising concerns for safety-critical deployment.

  • Evaluated 15 LLMs on four standardized test sets spanning three languages.
  • Models often found error-relevant text but failed to correctly distinguish erroneous notes from their clean counterparts.
  • Error-labeling biases varied by language, from defaulting to “no error” to over-flagging errors.
  • F1 and pairwise accuracy responded oppositely to these biases, potentially causing F1 rankings to favor weak discriminators.

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Toward Better Assessment of LLMs' Performance in Clinical Error Detection

arXiv cs.CL Yifan Zhang, Rahmatollah Beheshti 2026-08-17 arXiv:2608.16643
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TL;DR - Standard F1-style metrics can substantially misrepresent LLM performance on clinical error detection. Paired evaluation reveals that 13 of 15 tested models performed below random pairwise discrimination, raising concerns for safety-critical deployment.

  • Evaluated 15 LLMs on four standardized test sets spanning three languages.
  • Models often found error-relevant text but failed to correctly distinguish erroneous notes from their clean counterparts.
  • Error-labeling biases varied by language, from defaulting to “no error” to over-flagging errors.
  • F1 and pairwise accuracy responded oppositely to these biases, potentially causing F1 rankings to favor weak discriminators.
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