Extension of the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research Guideline to Large Language Models (COREQ+LLM): Protocol for a Multiphase Study

Leonard Fehring   ^{1, 2 *} , PD, Dr med ;   Julian Frings   ^{1 *} , MPhil ;   Paul Rust   ^{1 *} , MSc, MPhil ;   Christian Kempny   ^{3, 4} , MSc ;   Petra A Thürmann   ⁵ , Dr med ;   Sven Meister   ^{1, 6} , Prof Dr

¹ Health Care Informatics, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

² Department of Gastroenterology, Helios Universitätsklinikum Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

³ Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

⁴ Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Hamm, Germany

⁵ Chair of Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Health, School of Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University, Witten, Germany

⁶ Department Healthcare, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering, Dortmund, Germany

*these authors contributed equally