Answering clinicians' questions over trial evidence tables with verifiable, feedback-driven language models

Manan Roy Choudhury; Suparno Roy Chowdhury; Swastik Sahoo; Muhammad Ali Khan; Kaneez Zahra Rubab Khakwani; Mohamad Bassam Sonbol; Irbaz Bin Riaz; Vivek Gupta

arXiv · 2610.02576

Answering clinicians' questions over trial evidence tables with verifiable, feedback-driven language models

Manan Roy Choudhury·Suparno Roy Chowdhury·Swastik Sahoo·Muhammad Ali Khan·Kaneez Zahra Rubab Khakwani·Mohamad Bassam Sonbol·Irbaz Bin Riaz·Vivek Gupta

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Systematic reviews condense clinical trials into evidence tables, yet clinicians can interrogate these tables only through database queries, and many questions concern attributes that the table does not record, such as a drug's target class or a harmonised endpoint. Here we introduce FD-SCoPE, a language-model framework that answers both kinds of question, exposes the query, the selected trials and the derivation rule behind every answer, and learns from expert corrections. On an oncology evidence table of 159 immune checkpoint inhibitor trial records, FD-SCoPE completed all 140 clinician-style tasks (alternatives, 90.7-97.9%). For questions needing derived attributes it retrieved 99.3% of relevant trial records at a positive predictive value of 89.8% and outperformed four alternative approaches (derived-value F1 77.7% versus 64.8-73.4%). Corrections on 299 questions, simulated from reference answers, raised F1 on 1,201 unseen questions from 77.9% to 84.9%. Language models coupled with executable queries, verified programs and expert feedback can give clinicians auditable access to trial evidence.

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Manan Roy Choudhury, Suparno Roy Chowdhury, Swastik Sahoo, Muhammad Ali Khan, Kaneez Zahra Rubab Khakwani, Mohamad Bassam Sonbol, Irbaz Bin Riaz, Vivek Gupta. 2026-10-01. Answering clinicians' questions over trial evidence tables with verifiable, feedback-driven language models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.02576

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