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A new tool using artificial intelligence harmonizes inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) guidelines, identifying consensus and controversy to aid clinicians. This approach shows potential for improving guideline usability at the point of care.

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  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
  • Clinical Guideline Synthesis

Background:

  • Clinical guidelines for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are crucial for standardizing patient care.
  • Synthesizing recommendations from multiple, often conflicting, IBD guidelines is a significant challenge for clinicians.
  • A laborious manual process exists for clinicians to navigate and integrate diverse guideline recommendations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a proof-of-concept tool leveraging a large language model (LLM) with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • To assist clinicians in navigating IBD guideline complexity by harmonizing recommendations, identifying consensus, and detecting controversy.
  • To generate actionable statements from integrated IBD guidelines for clinical decision support.

Main Methods:

  • An LLM-driven RAG pipeline utilizing GPT-4o was designed for guideline content segmentation and comparison.
  • The tool analyzed recommendations across four major international IBD guidelines (ACG, ECCO, BSG, ACPGBI).
  • Evaluation involved eight common clinical questions in Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, with outputs assessed by expert reviewers on Likert scales.

Main Results:

  • The LLM-RAG tool demonstrated high fidelity in identifying guideline similarities (consensus recognition mean score: 4.34) and differences (disagreement detection mean score: 4.61).
  • Completeness, accuracy, and relevance scores consistently exceeded 4.0, indicating strong performance in key areas.
  • Tool-generated recommendations aligned with expert conclusions in 87.5% of cases, though conciseness and outline generation require further refinement.

Conclusions:

  • The LLM-RAG framework effectively integrates IBD guidelines, offering a systematic approach to harmonization.
  • This technology holds significant potential to enhance guideline usability and support clinical decision-making at the point of care.
  • Further development is recommended to improve the conciseness and comprehensiveness of generated outlines.