| BM25 | Best Matching 25 |
| CDS | Clinical decision support |
| LLM | Large language model |
| MedCPT | Medical Contrastive Pre-trained Transformers |
| MRR | Mean reciprocal rank |
| nDCG | Normalized discounted cumulative gain |
| RRF | Reciprocal-rank fusion |
| TF–IDF | Term frequency–inverse document frequency |