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This study aims to evaluate the performance of Claude 3.5-Sonnet, an advanced AI model, in generating discharge summaries for patients with renal insufficiency, compared to human physicians.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>A prospective, comparative study was conducted involving 100 patients (50 with acute kidney injury and 50 with chronic kidney disease) from the nephrology department of Ningbo Hangzhou Bay Hospital between January and June 2024. Discharge summaries were independently generated by Claude 3.5-Sonnet and human physicians. The main evaluation indicators included accuracy, generation time, and overall quality.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Claude 3.5-Sonnet demonstrated comparable accuracy to human physicians in generating discharge summaries for both AKI (90 vs. 92 points, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.05) and CKD patients (88 vs. 90 points, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.05). The AI model significantly outperformed human physicians in terms of efficiency, requiring only about 30\u2005s to generate a summary compared to over 15\u2005min for physicians (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.001). The overall quality scores showed no significant difference between AI-generated and physician-written summaries for both AKI (26 vs. 27 points, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.05) and CKD patients (25 vs. 26 points, <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;gt;\u20090.05).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Claude 3.5-Sonnet demonstrates high efficiency and reliability in generating discharge summaries for patients with renal insufficiency, with accuracy and quality comparable to those of human physicians. 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