How Much Would a Clinician Edit This Draft? Evaluating LLM Alignment for Patient Message Response Drafting (2026.acl-long)
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Parker Seegmiller, Joseph Gatto, Sarah E. Greer, Ganza Belise Isingizwe, Rohan Ray, Timothy E. Burdick, Sarah Masud Preum
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be effective in drafting patient portal responses, yet their integration into clinical workflows raises various concerns. |
| Approach: | They propose a taxonomy of thematic elements in clinician responses and a framework for assessing clinician editing load of LLM-drafted responses at both content and theme levels. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework assesses the editing load of LLM-drafted responses at both content and theme levels. |
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