Harnessing AI in Clinical Documentation: Evaluating Large Language Model-Generated Hospital Discharge Summaries

Highlight

• Large language model (LLM)-generated discharge summaries demonstrate comparable overall quality to physician-authored summaries.
• LLM narratives are more concise and coherent but less comprehensive than physician summaries.
• Although LLM summaries contain more unique errors, their potential for clinical harm remains low and similar to physician-generated notes.
• Use of LLM-generated summaries following human review may reduce documentation burden while maintaining safety and quality in hospital discharge communication.

Study Background and Disease Burden