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Rohaid Ali, MD Profile picture
Rohaid Ali, MD
@RohaidAliMD
Neurosurgery resident @BrownUniversity. Medical School @Stanford.
May 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
The average American reads at an 8th-grade level, yet the standard surgical consent form in the United States is written at a college level. Can we truly call this "informed" consent?

Our simple #GPT4-powered solution to this widespread problem:

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Image 1/ Our team collected and analyzed surgical consent forms in active use by 15 large hospitals across the country

On average the consents were written at the level of a college freshmen (!)

Next, we asked GPT-4 to convert these consents to the average American reading level: Image