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Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-04074-y

Published Online: 2026-02-09

Published Print: 2026-02

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Authors

Bean, Andrew M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8439-5975
Payne, Rebecca Elizabeth https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8954-7584
Parsons, Guy https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5786-2750
Kirk, Hannah Rose

Ciro, Juan

Mosquera-Gómez, Rafael https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0812-6330
Hincapié M, Sara

Ekanayaka, Aruna S. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5952-1335
Tarassenko, Lionel

Rocher, Luc https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9956-1187
Mahdi, Adam https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2329-4457
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Article History

Received: 4 May 2025

Accepted: 22 October 2025

First Online: 9 February 2026

Competing interests

: The authors declare no competing interests.