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Graph-Augmented Retrieval for Digital Evidence-Based Medical Synthesis: A Proof-of-Concept Study on Topology-Aware Mechanistic Narrative Generation

2026-02-19 health systems and quality improvement Title + abstract only
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BackgroundRetrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks such as RAPID [1] have demonstrated that staged planning and retrieval grounding improve long-form text generation. However, most implementations remain similarity-driven and open-domain, lacking the epistemic safeguards required for biomedical synthesis, where mechanistic completeness, temporal governance, traceability, and explicit gap classification are essential. ObjectiveTo develop and evaluate a topology-aware, graph-augmented retr...

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