What's Going On With Me and How Can I Better Manage My Health? The Potential of GPT-4 to Transform Discharge Letters Into Patient-Centered Letters to Enhance Patient Safety: Prospective, Exploratory Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

For hospitalized patients, the discharge letter serves as a crucial source of medical information, outlining important discharge instructions and health management tasks. However, these letters are often written in professional jargon, making them difficult for patients with limited medical knowledge to understand. Large language models, such as GPT, have the potential to transform these discharge summaries into patient-friendly letters, improving accessibility and understanding.

Objective

This study aims to use GPT-4 to convert discharge letters into more readable patient-centered letters. We evaluated how effectively and comprehensively GPT-4 identified and transferred patient safety-relevant information from the discharge letters to the transformed patient lett

SUBMITTER: Eisinger F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11795158 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature