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AI-assisted Rare Disease Diagnosis

30 juli 2026 bijgewerkt door: Shuyang Zhang, MD, PhD, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

A Multicentre Randomised Controlled Trial of LLM-Assisted Diagnostic Support in Patients With Suspected Rare or Diagnostically Unresolved Disease

A multicentre randomised controlled trial evaluating whether a rare-disease diagnostic large language model can improve diagnostic quality, efficiency, and health-economic outcomes for physicians managing patients with suspected rare or diagnostically unresolved disease.

Studie Overzicht

Toestand

Nog niet aan het werven

Conditie

Interventie / Behandeling

Gedetailleerde beschrijving

Rare disease patients commonly experience prolonged diagnostic odysseys rooted in limited rare disease recognition, phenotypic heterogeneity, and dispersed diagnostic clues. Diagnostic decision-support large language models may improve first-visit consultations by integrating prior records, generating structured analyses, and proposing candidate diagnoses, thereby shortening diagnostic pathways and improving appropriate genetic testing referral.

Participating physicians will provide care under both AI-assisted and standard diagnostic workflows. Eligible patients will be individually randomised to receive either AI-assisted diagnostic support or standard clinical practice.

In the intervention arm, physicians will have diagnostic support from AI when seeing patients. In the control arm, patients are seen under standard hospital workflow without any generative AI tools. Outcomes adjudicated by an independent Expert Committee blinded to arm assignment; adjudicators access no AI-generated materials.

A prospective within-trial economic evaluation will be conducted alongside the randomized trial. Healthcare resource use and costs associated with the diagnostic pathway will be collected.

Studietype

Ingrijpend

Inschrijving (Geschat)

1056

Fase

  • Niet toepasbaar

Contacten en locaties

In dit gedeelte vindt u de contactgegevens van degenen die het onderzoek uitvoeren en informatie over waar dit onderzoek wordt uitgevoerd.

Studiecontact

Studie Locaties

  • China
      • Beijing, China
        • Peking Union Medical College Hospital
        • Contact:
      • Cangzhou, China
        • Cangzhou Central Hospital
        • Contact:
      • Changchun, China
        • Changchun Sacred Heart Hospital
      • Dongguan, China
        • Dongguan People's Hospital
      • Foshan, China
        • First People's Hospital of Foshan
      • Guiyang, China
        • Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital
      • Jilin City, China
        • Jilin Central General Hospital
      • Kunming, China
        • The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province
      • Tianjin, China
        • Tianjin Children's Hospital
      • Tianshui, China
        • Tianshui 407 Hospital
        • Contact:
      • Wuhai, China
        • Wuhai People's Hospital
      • Xining, China
        • Qinghai Provincial People's Hospital
      • Zhangzhou, China
        • Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital of Fujian Province

Deelname Criteria

Onderzoekers zoeken naar mensen die aan een bepaalde beschrijving voldoen, de zogenaamde geschiktheidscriteria. Enkele voorbeelden van deze criteria zijn iemands algemene gezondheidstoestand of eerdere behandelingen.

Geschiktheidscriteria

Leeftijden die in aanmerking komen voor studie

  • Kind
  • Volwassen
  • Oudere volwassene

Accepteert gezonde vrijwilligers

Nee

Beschrijving

Patient Inclusion Criteria:

  • Any age. Legal guardian co-signs consent for minors or individuals lacking legal capacity.
  • Diagnostically unresolved or suspected rare disease, with at least one prior complete clinical evaluation at a secondary-level or higher institution yielding no confirmed explanatory diagnosis.
  • First presentation to the enrolling institution for the current condition, with no prior records in the institutional HIS or outpatient system.
  • No prior genetic testing related to the current condition; no results or reports available.
  • Written informed consent provided voluntarily by patient or legal guardian, with commitment and ability to complete structured follow-up.

Patient Exclusion Criteria:

  • Confirmed diagnosis (clinical, pathological, or molecular) explaining the primary symptoms.
  • Emergency presentation, critical illness, or any condition incompatible with trial participation.
  • Neither patient nor legally authorised proxy able to complete follow-up.
  • Concurrent enrollment in another interventional study with diagnostic accuracy or genetic testing yield as a primary endpoint.
  • Prior use of another AI system has already yielded a confirmed diagnosis for the current condition.

Physician Inclusion Criteria

  • Licensed physician in internal medicine, neurology, pediatrics, general medicine, rare disease, or a related specialty.
  • ≥2 years of clinical practice; competent to manage rare disease patients; stratified into junior or senior tier.
  • Voluntary participation with written informed consent.

Physician Exclusion Criteria

  • No longer in clinical practice, or unable to fulfill required outpatient duties during the study period.
  • Unwilling to provide informed consent or to permit protocol-required collection of consultation and questionnaire data.
  • Currently enrolled in another AI-assisted clinical workflow, or expected to be unable to comply with the procedures.

Studie plan

Dit gedeelte bevat details van het studieplan, inclusief hoe de studie is opgezet en wat de studie meet.

Hoe is de studie opgezet?

Ontwerpdetails

  • Primair doel: Diagnostisch
  • Toewijzing: Gerandomiseerd
  • Interventioneel model: Parallelle opdracht
  • Masker: Enkel

Wapens en interventies

Deelnemersgroep / Arm
Interventie / Behandeling
Experimenteel: AI system
AI system will be used to provide diagnostic support during the encounter in addition to conventional clinical workflow. Use of other generative AI tools is prohibited.
Ander: AI system
The study AI system will be used to provide diagnostic support during the clinical encounter, including structuring relevant clinical information, generating a clinical analysis, and suggesting candidate diagnoses for review by the treating physician.
Geen tussenkomst: Standard of care
The physician conducts the encounter per standard hospital workflow using conventional clinical resources only. Use of any generative AI tool is prohibited.

Wat meet het onderzoek?

Primaire uitkomstmaten

Uitkomstmaat
Maatregel Beschrijving
Tijdsspanne
Overall Correct Diagnostic Yield
Tijdsspanne: From the first visit to final reference diagnosis adjudication, an average of 8 weeks.
The proportion of all randomised patients whose clinical diagnosis by the end of follow-up is concordant with the blinded-adjudicated final reference diagnosis determined by an independent committee.
From the first visit to final reference diagnosis adjudication, an average of 8 weeks.

Secundaire uitkomstmaten

Uitkomstmaat
Maatregel Beschrijving
Tijdsspanne
Physician-Reported Experience
Tijdsspanne: Assessed at each consultation (day 1), within 1 day.
Physicians will assess their experience of the diagnostic workflow. Responses will be recorded using a standardized rating scale (range 1-5, where higher scores indicate more positive experience).
Assessed at each consultation (day 1), within 1 day.
Patient-Reported Experience
Tijdsspanne: Assessed at each consultation (day 1), within 1 day.
Patients will assess their experience of the diagnostic workflow. Responses will be recorded using a standardized rating scale (range 1-5, where higher scores indicate more positive experience).
Assessed at each consultation (day 1), within 1 day.
Appropriate Genetic Testing Recommendation Rate
Tijdsspanne: From the initial consultation to genetic testing indication adjudication, approximately 8 weeks
The proportion of randomized patients for whom physician-recommended genetic testing is concordant with the indication determined by an independent genetics adjudication committee.
From the initial consultation to genetic testing indication adjudication, approximately 8 weeks
Candidate Diagnostic Accuracy
Tijdsspanne: From the first visit to final reference diagnosis adjudication, an average of 8 weeks.
The agreement between physician-provided candidate diagnoses in the the initial consultation and the independently adjudicated reference diagnosis.
From the first visit to final reference diagnosis adjudication, an average of 8 weeks.
Molecular Diagnostic Yield
Tijdsspanne: From the first visit to final reference diagnosis adjudication, an average of 8 weeks.
The proportion of all randomized patients in whom genetic testing performed as part of the clinical diagnostic pathway identifies a clinically relevant molecular finding that is confirmed through independent genetics review.
From the first visit to final reference diagnosis adjudication, an average of 8 weeks.
Time to a Correct Diagnosis
Tijdsspanne: From enrollment to the end of follow-up, up to 8 weeks.
The number of days from the first study visit to the first physician-assigned diagnosis that is subsequently confirmed as concordant with the independently adjudicated reference diagnosis.
From enrollment to the end of follow-up, up to 8 weeks.
Duration of the Initial Physician Consultation
Tijdsspanne: Assessed at each consultation (day 1), within 1 day.
In-room consultation time will be recorded, measured, and compared between arms.
Assessed at each consultation (day 1), within 1 day.

Medewerkers en onderzoekers

Hier vindt u mensen en organisaties die betrokken zijn bij dit onderzoek.

Sponsor

Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Medewerkers

Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital
First People's Hospital of Foshan
Dongguan People's Hospital
Qinghai People's Hospital
Cangzhou Central Hospital
The First People's Hospital of Yunnan
Tianjin Children's Hospital
Zhangzhou Municipal Hospital

Onderzoekers

  • Hoofdonderzoeker: Shuyang Zhang, MD, PhD, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

Studie record data

Deze datums volgen de voortgang van het onderzoeksdossier en de samenvatting van de ingediende resultaten bij ClinicalTrials.gov. Studieverslagen en gerapporteerde resultaten worden beoordeeld door de National Library of Medicine (NLM) om er zeker van te zijn dat ze voldoen aan specifieke kwaliteitscontrolenormen voordat ze op de openbare website worden geplaatst.

Bestudeer belangrijke data

Studie start (Geschat)

1 augustus 2026

Primaire voltooiing (Geschat)

1 juli 2027

Studie voltooiing (Geschat)

1 december 2027

Studieregistratiedata

Eerst ingediend

7 juni 2026

Eerst ingediend dat voldeed aan de QC-criteria

14 juni 2026

Eerst geplaatst (Werkelijk)

16 juni 2026

Updates van studierecords

Laatste update geplaatst (Werkelijk)

31 juli 2026

Laatste update ingediend die voldeed aan QC-criteria

30 juli 2026

Laatst geverifieerd

1 juli 2026

Meer informatie

Termen gerelateerd aan deze studie

Trefwoorden

Aanvullende relevante MeSH-voorwaarden

Andere studie-ID-nummers

  • PUMCH I-26PJ0002

Plan Individuele Deelnemersgegevens (IPD)

Bent u van plan om gegevens van individuele deelnemers (IPD) te delen?

JA

Beschrijving IPD-plan

De-identified IPD will be shared with qualified researchers upon reasonable request, subject to ethics approval and a data use agreement.

IPD-tijdsbestek voor delen

Beginning 6 months after publication of the primary study results and ending 5 years after publication.

IPD-toegangscriteria voor delen

Requests must include a scientifically sound research proposal and analysis plan, and evidence of ethics approval or exemption where applicable. Access will be subject to approval by the study steering committee and participating institutions, execution of a data use agreement, and compliance with applicable ethical, legal, and data-protection requirements. Data will be made available through a secure access environment or other controlled transfer mechanism. No directly identifiable participant information will be shared.

IPD delen Ondersteunend informatietype

  • LEERPROTOCOOL
  • SAP
  • ANALYTIC_CODE

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