From Discharge Notes to Patient Understanding: Persona-Grounded, Open-Ended Simulation of LLMs as Discharge Educators

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arXiv:2609.20827v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hospital discharge education is an interactive teaching task: a clinician adapts a discharge plan to a patient's literacy, recall, and personality. Existing LLM evaluations target static or artifact-generation tasks and do not measure patient understanding under open-ended dialogue. We introduce DischargeBench, a persona-grounded simulation in which a candidate LLM educator conducts a multi-turn session with a Virtual Patient, while an Education Mo