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  • Medical Education
  • Health Informatics
  • Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Background:

  • Patient education materials are crucial for informed decision-making but often exceed recommended reading levels.
  • Limited health literacy presents a barrier to patient understanding of medical information.
  • Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a potential solution for enhancing the accessibility of patient education.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the effectiveness of AI (ChatGPT-4o) in simplifying surgical patient education materials to a sixth-grade reading level.
  • To assess the impact of AI simplification on readability metrics, accuracy, and comprehensiveness.
  • To determine the feasibility of AI in improving patient education accessibility.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of 34 online patient education materials across four surgical specialties.
  • Utilizing ChatGPT-4o to simplify text to a sixth-grade reading level.
  • Assessment of readability using Simple Measure of Gobbledygook, Coleman-Liau, and Flesch-Kincaid indices.
  • Expert review for accuracy and comprehensiveness, focusing on content categories like risks and benefits.

Main Results:

  • AI significantly reduced readability scores across all metrics (SMOG, Coleman-Liau, Flesch-Kincaid).
  • Average word count decreased by 55%, with notable reductions in plastic surgery materials.
  • Text accuracy was preserved, but crucial information such as risks and benefits was sometimes omitted.

Conclusions:

  • AI tools can enhance the readability of surgical patient education materials while preserving accuracy.
  • Achieving the target sixth-grade reading level remains challenging due to medical information complexity.
  • A hybrid approach combining AI simplification and clinician review is optimal for creating accessible, accurate, and comprehensive patient resources.