How can I use generative AI tools to create patient information leaflets?
Remember to summarise patient information leaflets, your Trust needs to own the content. You may want to:
- Create a patient information leaflet based on Trust guidelines or policies
- Adjust the reading age of a patient information leaflet
- Make a patient information leaflet more accessible
- Translate a patient information leaflet
- Demonstrate how language can be simplified in training/advice sessions with colleagues
Remember:
- Copyright: obtain permission to alter or translate the patient information leaflet from the content owner
- You will need to be clear in your prompting for the generative AI tool to create something useful
- You must check the output against the source documents to make sure it's accurate
- Check the output with subject experts to make sure it's giving patients the correct information
- Check language outputs with native/fluent speakers of the relevant language
- Check the readability of outputs as you would any other draft texts, potentially using the NHS Document Readability Tool
See also:
Balancing the risks and benefits of AI in the production of health information. Patient Information Forum. 2024.
AI-generated Patient Information Leaflets: a comparison of PIL contents to BAD standards, Verran, Callum, Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, 49(7), 2024.
NHS Document Readability Tool