Automated Brief Hospital Course Summarization in Cardiac Surgery Using a Lightweight Large Language Model-Based Framework: Development and Evaluation Study on the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV.
BACKGROUND Physician documentation requirements are a known contributor to clinician burnout, with the manual creation of brief hospital course (BHC) summaries being particularly time-consuming. Automating BHC summarization may mitigate this workload and reduce documentation errors. However, current natural language pr...