Evaluating large language models as patient education tools for inflammatory bowel disease: A comparative study

Figure 1 Clinical research framework: Evaluating large language models’ answers to inflammatory bowel disease queries. LLM: Large language model; IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease; ASL: Average number of words per sentence; ASW: Average number of syllables per word; FRE: Flesch Reading Ease.

Figure 2 Comparison of medical expert evaluation scores for the answers to the 15 questions on inflammatory bowel disease using different large language models. A: Accuracy median scores of the answers; B: Completeness median scores of the answers; C: Correlation median scores of the answers. IBD: Inflammatory bowel disease.

Figure 3 Different scores for the answers to the 15 questions on inflammatory bowel disease using different large language models. A: Comparison of patient evaluation scores; B: Flesch Reading Ease scores. FRE: Flesch Reading Ease scores.