Daniel J Morgan, Westyn Branch-Elliman, Katherine E Goodman
JAMA Intern Med. 2025 May 5. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.0827. Online ahead of print.
Discharge summaries are a form of communication between hospital-based and outpatient clinicians. In addition to providing an overview of the hospital course, discharge summaries frequently include information such as abnormal test results, necessary follow-up testing, and medication changes�critical information for ensuring safe continuity of care. Although discharge summaries are a recognized patient safety tool, they are also time-consuming to generate and contribute to the substantial administrative burden placed on clinicians�2 factors strongly associated with the national physician burnout crisis. Enter large language models (LLMs).