Can artificial intelligence make elective hand clinic letters easier for patients to understand?

Journal: The Journal of hand surgery, European volume
PMID: 38641940

Abstract

We investigated whether ChatGPT was able to increase the Flesch reading ease and the Flesch-Kincaid reading level of elective clinic letters written by hand surgeons. ChatGPT could not reliably simplify the hand clinic letters any further.

Authors

  • Adam C Stoneham
    Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, UK.
  • Lucy C Walker
    Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK.
  • Michael J Newman
    Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, UK.
  • Alex Nicholls
    Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK.
  • Duncan Avis
    Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK.

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