EHRTutor: Enhancing Patient Understanding of Discharge Instructions. Zhang, Z., Yao, Z., Zhou, H., ouyang , F., & Yu, H. October, 2023. To appear in NeurIPS'23 Workshop on Generative AI for Education (GAIED), December, New Orleans
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Large language models have shown success as a tutor in education in various fields. Educating patients about their clinical visits plays a pivotal role in patients' adherence to their treatment plans post-discharge. This paper presents EHRTutor, an innovative multi-component framework leveraging the Large Language Model (LLM) for patient education through conversational question-answering. EHRTutor first formulates questions pertaining to the electronic health record discharge instructions. It then educates the patient through conversation by administering each question as a test. Finally, it generates a summary at the end of the conversation. Evaluation results using LLMs and domain experts have shown a clear preference for EHRTutor over the baseline. Moreover, EHRTutor also offers a framework for generating synthetic patient education dialogues that can be used for future in-house system training.
@misc{zhang_ehrtutor_2023,
	title = {{EHRTutor}: {Enhancing} {Patient} {Understanding} of {Discharge} {Instructions}},
	shorttitle = {{EHRTutor}},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19212},
	doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2310.19212},
	abstract = {Large language models have shown success as a tutor in education in various fields. Educating patients about their clinical visits plays a pivotal role in patients' adherence to their treatment plans post-discharge. This paper presents EHRTutor, an innovative multi-component framework leveraging the Large Language Model (LLM) for patient education through conversational question-answering. EHRTutor first formulates questions pertaining to the electronic health record discharge instructions. It then educates the patient through conversation by administering each question as a test. Finally, it generates a summary at the end of the conversation. Evaluation results using LLMs and domain experts have shown a clear preference for EHRTutor over the baseline. Moreover, EHRTutor also offers a framework for generating synthetic patient education dialogues that can be used for future in-house system training.},
	urldate = {2023-11-01},
	publisher = {arXiv},
	author = {Zhang, Zihao and Yao, Zonghai and Zhou, Huixue and ouyang, Feiyun and Yu, Hong},
	month = oct,
	year = {2023},
	note = {To appear in NeurIPS'23 Workshop on Generative AI for Education (GAIED),  December, New Orleans},
	keywords = {Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science - Computation and Language},
}

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