Improving Reliability and Explainability of Medical Question Answering Through Atomic Fact-Checking in Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models: Creation and Validation Study
Abstract Background Large language models (LLMs) exhibit extensive medical knowledge but are prone to hallucinations and show low fact-level explainability, limiting clinical adoption and regulatory compliance. Existing approaches, such as retrieval-augmented generation, partially address these issues by grounding answ...