LLMs for Causal Reasoning in Medicine? A Call for Caution

Published in 13th ACM IKDD International Conference on Data Science, 2025

We formulate a three step evaluation scheme and evaluate LLMS (medical and otherwise) across pediatrics (ECMO) and obstetrics domain (APO)

Recommended citation: Saurabh Mathur, Ranveer Singh, Michael Skinner, Predrag Radivojac, David M. Haas, Lakshmi Raman, and Sriraam Natarajan. 2026. LLMs for Causal Reasoning in Medicine? A Call for Caution. In Proceedings of the 13th ACM IKDD International Conference on Data Science (CODS 25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 164–172. https://doi.org/10.1145/3799830.3799848
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