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Prompting is All You Need: How to Make LLMs More Helpful for Clinical Decision Support

2026-02-22 neurology Title + abstract only
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ImportanceLarge language models (LLMs) offer potential decision support, but their accuracy varies. Prompt engineering can generally enhance LLM behavior in a clinical context, yet best practices have yet to be formally explored in realistic neurology settings. ObjectiveTo evaluate the impact of structured prompting versus simple prompting on the performance of six LLMs (three closed-source: OpenAI GPT-4o, OpenAI o3, OpenAI GPT-5.2 Thinking; three open-source: Meta Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruc...

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