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. 2024 Nov;49(10):1269-1270.
doi: 10.1177/17531934241246479. Epub 2024 Apr 20.

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

Adam C Stoneham  1 , Lucy C Walker  2 , Michael J Newman  1 , Alex Nicholls  2 , Duncan Avis  2
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Can artificial intelligence make elective hand clinic letters easier for patients to understand?

Adam C Stoneham et al. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2024 Nov.

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.

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