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Ruben De Rouck1,2, Evy Wille3, Allison Gilbert4
1AZ Sint Maria Halle, Ziekenhuislaan 100, Halle, 1500, Belgium. ruben.de.rouck@vub.be.
International Journal of Emergency Medicine
|April 25, 2025
Summary
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) can efficiently create patient discharge information (PDI). While AI-generated PDI shows promise, human review is essential for accuracy and reliability.
Area of Science:
- Medical Informatics
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Background:
- Effective patient discharge information (PDI) is crucial for patient satisfaction and outcomes.
- Current methods for creating PDI are time-consuming and costly.
- Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) offer potential for efficient PDI production.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the key performance indicators (KPIs) of AI-generated patient discharge information.
- To assess the quality, accessibility, clarity, correctness, and usability of AI-generated PDI brochures.
Main Methods:
- AI-generated PDI brochures were created using ChatGPT (GPT-4) and translated to Dutch via DeepL.
- Brochures focused on common emergency department complaints: abdominal pain, low back pain, and fever in children.
- Eight emergency physicians evaluated brochures using a 1-10 rating scale for five KPIs; readability was assessed using standard indices.
Main Results:
- AI-generated brochures received average scores of 7-8/10 across evaluated aspects.
- Readability analysis suggested high school to college-level comprehension, potentially overestimated.
- Revisions are needed to optimize AI-generated PDI documents.
Conclusions:
- LLMs present an opportunity for rapid PDI brochure generation.
- Human review and editing are critical to ensure accuracy and reliability of AI-generated PDI.
- Further research with more topics and in-patient validation is recommended.
Keywords:
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