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EvaluationHard· Confidence Thresholds· Risk Management· Decision Theory

Your team wants to set a clinical assistant’s abstentio...

Confidence thresholds must be grounded in the economic or safety-related costs of the system’s decisions. In a clinical setting, the cost of a wrong answer (Cw) is extremely high, meaning the threshold should be much stricter than for a general-purpose assistant. Failing to calculate this based on domain-specific costs risks patient harm.

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