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NoteChat: A Dataset of Synthetic Patient-Physician Conversations Conditioned on Clinical Notes.

Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang, Huixue Zhou, Rumeng Li, Xun Wang, Yucheng Xu, Hong Yu

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Article in Findings of ACL. ACL, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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8 authors.

Junda WangUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Zonghai YaoUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Zhichao YangUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Huixue ZhouUniversity of Minnesota.
Rumeng LiUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Xun WangUniversity of Microsoft.
Yucheng XuUniversity of Edinburgh.
Hong YuUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Funding

HSRD VA I01 HX003969
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We introduce NoteChat, a novel cooperative multi-agent framework leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate patient-physician dialogues. NoteChat embodies the principle that an ensemble of role-specific LLMs, through structured role-play and strategic prompting, can perform their assigned roles more effectively. The synergy among these role-playing LLMs results in a cohesive and efficient dialogue generation. Evaluation on MTS-dialogue (Abacha et al., 2023; Ben Abacha et al., 2023), a benchmark dataset for patient-physician dialogues-note pairs, shows that models trained with the augmented synthetic patient-physician dialogues by NoteChat outperforms other state-of-the-art models for generating clinical notes. Our comprehensive automatic and human evaluation demonstrates that NoteChat substantially surpasses state-of-the-art models like ChatGPT and GPT-4 up to 22.78% by domain experts in generating superior synthetic patient-physician dialogues based on clinical notes. NoteChat has the potential to engage patients directly and help clinical documentation, a leading cause of physician burnout (Budd, 2023).

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