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A study of 402 randomly selected Medicaid enrollees reported an average of a 5th-grade reading level, which is lower than the average 8th-grade level of US adults 1,2. Therefore, the American Medical Association (AMA) recommends developing health materials at a 6th-grade reading level or lower 3. However, a 2018 systematic review of 7891 health websites reported that educational health materials are often at 10th- to 15th-grade reading levels 4. In a study evaluating ChatGPT-generated materials for 14 dermatological diseases, content was at a 10th-grade reading level 5. We hypothesized that ChatGPT could be prompted to generate rewritten health materials at a lower grade level and in line with AMA recommendations. The readability of ChatGPT-generated dermatology information and public educational resources on the American Academy of Dermatology Association’s (AAD) website was assessed and determined whether strategic prompting would enhance the material’s readability.
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