A Pragmatic Trial of AI-Assisted Discharge Summary Generation

The goal of this study is to learn whether an artificial intelligence (AI) tool built into the electronic health record helps hospital physicians write discharge summaries. A discharge summary is the document that tells a patient\'s family doctor and other providers what happened during a hospital stay. The main questions this study aims to answer are: Does access to the AI tool reduce the time physicians spend writing discharge summaries? Does it change the quality of discharge summaries or how soon they are completed? How does it affect physician workload? Physicians will be randomly assigned to either have access to the AI tool or complete discharge summaries as they usually do. Physicians with access can choose whether to use the tool, and they review and edit any AI-generated text before it becomes part of the discharge summary.