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Use of modern language models to generate surgical reports at the HDZ NRW

Use of modern language models to generate surgical reports at the HDZ NRW

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
DRKS
Registry ID
DRKS00040844
Enrollment
30
Registered
2026-07-07
Start date
2026-08-03
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-08-03

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

language model

Interventions

Group 1: Intraoperative data collection (using audiovisual recording equipment) following the patient’s prior consent. Subsequently, a preliminary surgical report is generated by AI. Comparison with a

Sponsors

Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Klinik für Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum Medizinische Fakultät OWL (Universität Bielefeld)
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Written informed consent available; Patients aged 18 and older; Routine procedures (e.g. isloated aortic valve surgery, mitral valve surgery)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Pregnancy; patients with psychiatric or neurological disorders associated with impaired legal capacity;

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Overall quality of the generated surgical reports (measured using automated metrics (ROUGE) and determined manually through annotation).

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
1. Effort required for manual correction (measured in time) 2. Potential savings from using a language model (measured in time and monetary savings) 3. Types and severity of model errors 4. Added value of multimodal input data (e.g., audio or video) These values are reviewed after the surgical report is generated.

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactHeike Windhagen

Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW, Klinik für Thorax- und Kardiovaskularchirurgie Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum Medizinische Fakultät OWL (Universität Bielefeld)

hwindhagen@hdz-nrw.de+495731-97-1907

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Aug 10, 2026