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Table 2 Examples of symptom versus semantically driven summary statements. Both extractions describe the case of altered mental status

From: Virtual patients to explore and develop clinical case summary statement skills amongst Japanese resident physicians: a mixed methods study

Symptom driven case summarization

Semantically driven case summarization

81 year-old man with history of diabetes. Today at approximately 4:30 pm, the patient’s grandson found him lying prostrate in his bathroom. His upper body was unclothed and he was wearing underwear. His underwear was stained with urine. The patient responded when called to. He was emergently transferred to our hospital. There is a history of alcohol use the night before admission.

81 year old man with a history of diabetes, but this is untreated. The day after drinking alcohol, he was found with altered mental status. The duration of altered mental status is unclear, but it persists at time of evaluation.