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Large Language Models for Thematic Analysis in Healthcare Research: A Blinded Mixed-Methods Comparison with Human Analysts

2025-12-29

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Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for qualitative thematic analysis, yet evidence on their performance in analysing focus-group data, where polyvocality and context complicate coding, remains limited. Given the increasing role of such models in thematic analysis, there is a need for methodological frameworks that enable systematic, metric-based comparisons between human and model-based analyses. W...

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Literature Corpus work: 3ece36a1-9c44-5035-a432-a142d6e74184
DOI: 10.64898/2025.12.25.25343031

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