Towards Clinical Encounter Summarization: Learning to Compose Discharge Summaries from Prior Notes

04/27/2021
by   Han-Chin Shing, et al.
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The records of a clinical encounter can be extensive and complex, thus placing a premium on tools that can extract and summarize relevant information. This paper introduces the task of generating discharge summaries for a clinical encounter. Summaries in this setting need to be faithful, traceable, and scale to multiple long documents, motivating the use of extract-then-abstract summarization cascades. We introduce two new measures, faithfulness and hallucination rate for evaluation in this task, which complement existing measures for fluency and informativeness. Results across seven medical sections and five models show that a summarization architecture that supports traceability yields promising results, and that a sentence-rewriting approach performs consistently on the measure used for faithfulness (faithfulness-adjusted F_3) over a diverse range of generated sections.

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