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Evaluating Large Language Model Performance in Generating Clinically Relevant Intensive Care Unit Discharge

Seshadri C Mudumbai^1,2, Philip Chung², Ji-Qing Chen¹

¹From the Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, California.

|September 15, 2025

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Large language models (LLMs) can create readable ICU discharge summaries, but they often miss patient-specific details and lack depth compared to human experts. Further refinement is needed for clinical accuracy and utility.

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Area of Science:

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Clinical Informatics
Natural Language Processing

Background:

Large language models (LLMs) show promise for automating clinical documentation, including time-intensive ICU discharge summaries.
Evaluating the clinical suitability of LLM-generated summaries is crucial for adoption.

Purpose of the Study:

To compare the quality of LLM-generated ICU discharge summaries against human-authored ones.
To assess LLM summary performance across six key domains: coherence, consistency, fluency, relevance, utility, and overall quality.

Main Methods:

Ten patient cases from the MIMIC-III database were used, each with 20 physician notes.
A Bidirectional and Auto-Regressive Transformer (BART) model generated summaries.
Four intensivists evaluated the LLM summaries using a 5-point Likert scale.

Main Results:

LLM summaries scored well in coherence (median 4/5) and fluency (median 4/5) but lower in consistency (median 3/5), relevance (median 3/5), and utility (median 3/5).
Overall quality relative to human summaries was rated low (median 2/5).
LLMs frequently omitted patient-specific information, impacting utility and relevance.

Conclusions:

LLMs can produce fluent and readable ICU discharge summaries.
Current LLMs require further ICU-specific fine-tuning and domain knowledge integration to improve clinical detail accuracy and depth.
Enhancements are needed for LLMs to fully align with expert clinician standards.