Evaluation of a clinical summarization method based on GPT-4 suggests that such models might reduce the documentation burden on clinicians — but prospective evaluation with high-priority tasks will be the true test of its potential.
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Roberts, K. Large language models for reducing clinicians’ documentation burden. Nat Med 30, 942–943 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-02888-w
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