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Sarah Pradhan1, Kate McCormick2, Luc Mertens2
1Labatt Family Heart Center, The Hospital for Sick Children, Division of Cardiology, Temerty School of Medicine, Toronto, ON, Canada. sarah.pradhan6@gmail.com.
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 can create personalized pediatric cardiac catheterization educational materials. This improves family understanding and clinic satisfaction, adapting complex information to specific reading levels.
Area of Science:
- Pediatric Cardiology
- Medical Education
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Background:
- Written educational materials are effective for pre-operative information delivery.
- Personalized educational materials using large-language models (LLMs) tailored to parental educational level have not been described in pediatric cardiology.
Purpose of the Study:
- To assess the utility of ChatGPT in generating pediatric cardiac catheterization information sheets at varied reading levels.
- To improve procedural understanding and clinic satisfaction among families.
Main Methods:
- A prospective quality improvement study utilized ChatGPT to create information sheets at 6th and 10th-grade reading levels.
- Surveys assessed parental understanding and clinic satisfaction using Likert scales.
- Twenty-six families participated in the study.
Main Results:
- ChatGPT rapidly generated accurate information sheets at the requested reading levels.
- Significant improvement in parental understanding of the cardiac catheterization procedure (mean Likert score increase of 0.57, p < 0.01).
- 96% of families reported improved understanding, and families reported higher clinic visit satisfaction (mean score 4.5 ± 0.8).
Conclusions:
- Large-language models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are valuable tools for tailoring medical education to specific reading levels.
- LLMs can augment pre-procedural visits by enhancing family understanding and satisfaction with complex pediatric cardiology procedures.
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