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Evaluating the Performance of AI Large Language Models in Detecting Pediatric Medication Errors Across Languages: A Comparative Study

Abu-Farha RK, Abuzaid H, Alalawneh J, Sharaf M, Al-Ghawanmeh R, Qunaibi EA

Journal of clinical medicine, 2025

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Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the performance of four AI models, (GPT-5, GPT-4, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini), in detecting medication errors through pediatric case scenarios. Methods: A total of 60 pediatric cases were analyzed for the presence of medication errors, of which only half contained errors. The cases covered four therapeutic systems (respiratory, endocrine, neurology, and infectious). The four models were exposed to the cases in both English and Arabic using a unified prompt. The responses for each model were used to calculate various performance metric cover accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and reproducibility. Analysis was carried out using SPSS version 22. Results: Microsoft Copilot demonstrated relatively higher accuracy (86.7% in English, 85.0% in Arabic) compared to other models in this dataset, followed by GPT-5 (81.7% in English, 75.0% in Arabic). GPT-4 and Google Gemini had less accuracy, with Gemini having the lowest accuracy across all languages (76.7% in English, and 73.3% in Arabic). Microsoft Copilot showed comparatively higher sensitivity and specificity, particularly in cases of respiratory and infectious diseases. The accuracy in Arabic was lower compared to that of English for the majority of models. Microsoft Copilot exhibited relatively higher reproducibility and inter-run agreement (Cohen's Kappa = 0.836 English, 0.815 Arabic, p p Conclusions: In our evaluation, Microsoft Copilot demonstrated relatively higher…

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