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Supporting the interdisciplinary head and neck tumour board using locally run large language models – a prospective study

Supporting the interdisciplinary head and neck tumour board using locally run large language models – a prospective study

Status
Recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00037699
Enrollment
30
Registered
2025-08-15
Start date
2025-08-12
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-06

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Patients with tumours in the head and neck area

Interventions

Group 1: One group of patients is undergoing treatment at our clinic for a malignant tumour/growth. For this group, a treatment plan is created using a large language model similar to ChatGPT and comp

Sponsors

Klinik für Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenheilkunde und Poliklinik Universitätsmedizin Mainz
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Treatment at our clinic, =/>18 years

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: No treatment at our clinic, < 18 years

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Rating of the recommendations of the local LLMs (binary and Likert scale). Agreement between the recommendations of the local LLMs and the tumour board recommendation. After the tumour board has made a decision, participants are presented with the local LLM's recommendation and asked to provide a brief assessment of the recommendation (medical appropriateness on a 6-point Likert scale and whether the information provided by the LLM could have influenced the tumour board's recommendation (yes/no), risk to patient safety (yes/no).

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Patients' perceptiveness towards LLMs in general and in the provision of treatment recommendations. The enclosed patient group to be discussed in the tumour board will be compared with randomly selected patients who are not visiting our polyclinic due to a tumour disease. (Questionnaire-based)

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactChristoph Raphael Buhr

Klinik für Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenheilkunde und Poliklinik Universitätsmedizin Mainz

christophraphael.buhr@unimedizin-mainz.de06131 177362

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026