Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41328283›Full record

ArticleFindings of ACL. ACL2025

Natural Language Processing in Support of Evidence-based Medicine: A Scoping Review.

Zihan Xu, Haotian Ma, Gongbo Zhang, Yihao Ding, Chunhua Weng, Yifan Peng

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Findings of ACL. ACL, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Improving Retrieval-Augmented Generation without Taxonomy-based Error Categorization.Proceedings of the conference. Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. A Disease-Aware Dual-Stage Framework for Chest X-ray Report Generation.Proceedings of the ... AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · 2026
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Zihan XuWeill Cornell Medicine.
Haotian MaWeill Cornell Medicine.
Gongbo ZhangColumbia University.
Yihao DingUniversity of Sydney.
Chunhua WengColumbia University.
Yifan PengWeill Cornell Medicine.

Funding

ClinEX - Clinical Evidence Extraction, Representation, and AppraisalR01LM014344 · NLM · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Yong Chen, Yifan Peng · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Closing the loop with an automatic referral population and summarization systemR01LM014306 · NLM · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Yifan Peng, Justin Frederick Rousseau · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Extraction and summarization of evidence-based medicineR01LM014573 · NLM · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Yifan Peng, CHUNHUA WENG · 2024 to 2026
$1.1M
NLM NIH HHS R01 LM014306NLM NIH HHS R01 LM014344NLM NIH HHS R01 LM014573
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is at the forefront of modern healthcare, emphasizing the use of the best available scientific evidence to guide clinical decisions. Due to the sheer volume and rapid growth of medical literature and the high cost of curation, there is a critical need to investigate Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods to identify, appraise, synthesize, summarize, and disseminate evidence in EBM. This survey presents an in-depth review of 129 research studies on leveraging NLP for EBM, illustrating its pivotal role in enhancing clinical decision-making processes. The paper systematically explores how NLP supports the five fundamental steps of EBM - Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply, and Assess. The review not only identifies current limitations within the field but also proposes directions for future research, emphasizing the potential for NLP to revolutionize EBM by refining evidence extraction, evidence synthesis, appraisal, summarization, enhancing data comprehensibility, and facilitating a more efficient clinical workflow.

Identifiers

PMID41328283
PMCPMC12665387

What Socratic holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.