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

Adam C Stoneham; Lucy C Walker; Michael J Newman; Alex Nicholls; Duncan Avis

doi:10.1177/17531934241246479

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

J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2024 Apr 20:17531934241246479. doi: 10.1177/17531934241246479. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Adam C Stoneham¹, Lucy C Walker², Michael J Newman¹, Alex Nicholls², Duncan Avis²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospitals Southampton, Southampton, UK.
² Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Hampshire Hospitals Foundation Trust, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Basingstoke, UK.

PMID: 38641940
DOI: 10.1177/17531934241246479

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.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence; ChatGPT; elective hand clinic; patient letters; readability.

Publication types

Letter