AI watchdog aims to catch unsafe medical recommendations before they reach patients
NCT ID NCT07718893
First seen Jul 22, 2026 · Last updated Jul 23, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests CITE, a tool that checks AI-generated care plans against a library of medical evidence to flag unsafe or unsupported recommendations. Researchers will compare CITE-assisted care plans to those made with standard AI safety measures or by clinicians alone. The study involves 240 Medicaid primary care patients and focuses on how accurately CITE identifies safety hazards and how many alerts it generates for clinicians.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- CITE evidence-grounding retrieve-and-verify layer
- What this could lead to
- If successful, CITE could help reduce medical errors by catching unsafe or unsupported recommendations in AI-generated care plans.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage trial with 240 participants, so results may not apply broadly. The tool may flag too many false alarms, overwhelming clinicians.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 240 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
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Sep 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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A company
The lead sponsor is a pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical-device company.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Age 18 years or older. 2. Medicaid-enrolled and attributed to a participating Waymark primary care site. 3. Primary care encounter that requires clinical reasoning (not administrative-only). 4. English-language clinical documentation. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Age less than 18 years. 2. Hospice or palliative-care-exclusive care plan. 3. Administrative-only or pharmacy-only encounter that does not surface a clinical decision to the supervising clinician. 4. Encounter where the supervising clinician is the principal investigator. 5. Enrollment in a competing AI-safety study within the prior 90 days.
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