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From Evidence-Based Medicine to Knowledge Graph: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Sports Rehabilitation and a Domain Benchmark

Jinning Zhang, Jie Song, Wenhui Tu, Zecheng Li +6 more

Published

Jan 1, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

65/100 (Medium)

Extraction confidence

70% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Domain Experts

Signals refreshed

Mar 26, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper has useful evaluation signal, but protocol completeness is partial; pair it with related papers before deciding implementation strategy.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Secondary protocol comparison source

Use if you need

A secondary eval reference to pair with stronger protocol papers.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Detected
From extracted signals
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
65/100
Moderate-confidence candidate

Useful as a secondary reference; validate protocol details against neighboring papers.

Abstract

Current medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches overlook evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles, leading to two key gaps: (1) the lack of PICO alignment between queries and retrieved evidence, and (2) the absence of evidence hierarchy considerations during reranking. We present SR-RAG, an EBM-adapted GraphRAG framework that integrates the PICO framework into knowledge graph construction and retrieval, and proposes Bayesian Evidence Tier Reranking (BETR) to calibrate ranking scores by evidence grade without predefined weights. Validated in sports rehabilitation, we release a knowledge graph (357,844 nodes, 371,226 edges) and a benchmark of 1,637 QA pairs. SR-RAG achieves 0.812 evidence recall@10, 0.830 nugget coverage, 0.819 answer faithfulness, 0.882 semantic similarity, and 0.788 PICOT match accuracy, substantially outperforming five baselines. Five expert clinicians rated the system 4.66--4.84 on a 5-point Likert scale, and system rankings are preserved on a human-verified gold subset (n=80).

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

strong

Rubric Rating, Expert Verification

Directly usable for protocol triage.

"Current medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches overlook evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles, leading to two key gaps: (1) the lack of PICO alignment between queries and retrieved evidence, and (2) the absence of evidence hierarchy considerations during reranking."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Current medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches overlook evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles, leading to two key gaps: (1) the lack of PICO alignment between queries and retrieved evidence, and (2) the absence of evidence hierarchy considerations during reranking."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Current medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches overlook evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles, leading to two key gaps: (1) the lack of PICO alignment between queries and retrieved evidence, and (2) the absence of evidence hierarchy considerations during reranking."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Current medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches overlook evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles, leading to two key gaps: (1) the lack of PICO alignment between queries and retrieved evidence, and (2) the absence of evidence hierarchy considerations during reranking."

Reported Metrics

strong

Accuracy, Recall, Recall@10, Faithfulness

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"SR-RAG achieves 0.812 evidence recall@10, 0.830 nugget coverage, 0.819 answer faithfulness, 0.882 semantic similarity, and 0.788 PICOT match accuracy, substantially outperforming five baselines."

Rater Population

strong

Domain Experts

Helpful for staffing comparability.

"Five expert clinicians rated the system 4.66--4.84 on a 5-point Likert scale, and system rankings are preserved on a human-verified gold subset (n=80)."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

accuracyrecallrecall@10faithfulness
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
Yes
Feedback types
Rubric Rating, Expert Verification
Rater population
Domain Experts
Unit of annotation
Ranking
Expertise required
Medicine
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
Use this page as
Secondary protocol comparison source

Research brief

Metadata summary

Current medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches overlook evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles, leading to two key gaps: (1) the lack of PICO alignment between queries and retrieved evidence, and (2) the absence of evidence hierarchy considerations during reranking.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Current medical retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) approaches overlook evidence-based medicine (EBM) principles, leading to two key gaps: (1) the lack of PICO alignment between queries and retrieved evidence, and (2) the absence of evidence hierarchy considerations during reranking.
  • We present SR-RAG, an EBM-adapted GraphRAG framework that integrates the PICO framework into knowledge graph construction and retrieval, and proposes Bayesian Evidence Tier Reranking (BETR) to calibrate ranking scores by evidence grade without predefined weights.
  • Validated in sports rehabilitation, we release a knowledge graph (357,844 nodes, 371,226 edges) and a benchmark of 1,637 QA pairs.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Validate inferred eval signals (Automatic metrics) against the full paper.
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Contribution summary

  • We present SR-RAG, an EBM-adapted GraphRAG framework that integrates the PICO framework into knowledge graph construction and retrieval, and proposes Bayesian Evidence Tier Reranking (BETR) to calibrate ranking scores by evidence grade…
  • Validated in sports rehabilitation, we release a knowledge graph (357,844 nodes, 371,226 edges) and a benchmark of 1,637 QA pairs.
  • Five expert clinicians rated the system 4.66--4.84 on a 5-point Likert scale, and system rankings are preserved on a human-verified gold subset (n=80).

Why it matters for eval

  • Validated in sports rehabilitation, we release a knowledge graph (357,844 nodes, 371,226 edges) and a benchmark of 1,637 QA pairs.
  • Five expert clinicians rated the system 4.66--4.84 on a 5-point Likert scale, and system rankings are preserved on a human-verified gold subset (n=80).

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    Detected: Rubric Rating, Expert Verification

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy, recall, recall@10, faithfulness