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Published on in Vol 28 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/89003, first published .
Robot and woman review patient discharge summary with AI healthcare icons

Large Language Models’ Simulation of Patient Comprehension of Discharge Summaries: Multimodel Evaluation Study

Large Language Models’ Simulation of Patient Comprehension of Discharge Summaries: Multimodel Evaluation Study

Xinyao Ma   1 * , PhD ;   Rui Zhu   2 * , PhD ;   Zihao Wang   3 , PhD ;   Jingwei Xiong   4 , PhD ;   Qingyu Chen   2 , PhD ;   L Jean Camp   5 , PhD ;   Haixu Tang   1 , PhD

1 Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States

2 School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

3 College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

4 Biostatistics, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States

5 College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, United States

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Xinyao Ma, PhD
  • Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering
  • Indiana University Bloomington
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