R0023/2026-03-25/Q001/S01/R03¶
Domain-specific study on chain-of-thought limitations in medical question answering.
Summary¶
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | A comparative evaluation of chain-of-thought-based prompt engineering techniques for medical question answering |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010482525009655 |
| Date accessed | 2026-03-25 |
| Publication date | 2025 |
| Author(s) | Not extracted from search results |
| Publication | Computers in Biology and Medicine (ScienceDirect) |
Selection Decision¶
Included in evidence base: Yes
Rationale: Provides domain-specific evidence that advanced CoT variants can reduce performance. Found that Interactive CoT's metacognitive approach often resulted in lower performance, and that CoT boosted overconfidence alongside accuracy gains in medical contexts.