Rewrite your discharge instructions in plain language
My discharge instructions are written for doctors and my patients can't follow them.
Retrospective evaluation De-identified text only Individual access available
Source check: 2026-11-11 · Physician review: not yet recorded
Make your instructions easier to follow
Keep the plan you chose; change the reading burden.
Use a fictional example now; actual discharge text belongs in an approved clinical workspace.
You provide
Fictional instructions for a communication exercise, not a treatment protocol. Maintain the scheduled outpatient follow-up appointment on Monday at 10 a.m. Bring the current medication list. Contact our office if you are unable to attend. The clinician has not supplied medication changes or return precautions in this excerpt.
A useful result
Follow-up Keep your appointment on Monday at 10 a.m. Bring a list of the medicines you take. If you cannot make the appointment, call our office. Teach-back What will you bring to your appointment on Monday? Clinician check This excerpt does not supply medication instructions or return precautions. Add the clinician-approved information before using this as a complete discharge document.
Illustrative output written for this guide, not a live model run. Fictional example; clinician decisions are supplied in the input.
Rewrite the clinician-approved instructions below in plain language, aiming for about a sixth-grade reading level. Use short headings: What to do, Follow-up, and When to get help. Preserve medication names, doses, timing, restrictions, appointments and return precautions exactly in meaning. Do not add new medical instructions or infer missing details. Put absent or conflicting information in a separate “Clinician check” list. Ask one teach-back question that tests understanding of a stated next step. This is a wording task, not a request to design a treatment plan. APPROVED INSTRUCTIONS: Fictional instructions for a communication exercise, not a treatment protocol. Maintain the scheduled outpatient follow-up appointment on Monday at 10 a.m. Bring the current medication list. Contact our office if you are unable to attend. The clinician has not supplied medication changes or return precautions in this excerpt.
Replace the bracketed material in your AI tool. The site does not collect clinical text.
Rewrite the clinician-approved instructions below in plain language, aiming for about a sixth-grade reading level. Use short headings: What to do, Follow-up, and When to get help. Preserve medication names, doses, timing, restrictions, appointments and return precautions exactly in meaning. Do not add new medical instructions or infer missing details. Put absent or conflicting information in a separate “Clinician check” list. Ask one teach-back question that tests understanding of a stated next step. This is a wording task, not a request to design a treatment plan. APPROVED INSTRUCTIONS: [paste your material here]
Before you use it
- Compare every medication and time against the approved plan.
- Check for missing return precautions; do not let AI supply them.
- Read the final instructions aloud and ask the patient to explain the next step.
The prompts are editorial templates, not clinically validated tools. Keep responsibility for clinical decisions and final communication.
The workflow
- For a first test, use fictional or appropriately de-identified content. For identifiable clinical records, use a workspace covered by your organization’s patient-data agreement; removing names alone is insufficient.
- Start with instructions you have already approved: medicines, doses, timing, restrictions, appointments and return precautions.
- Paste them into the reusable prompt in ChatGPT for Clinicians, which asks for about a sixth-grade reading level under the headings What to do, Follow-up and When to get help.
- If return precautions or other details are missing, add them yourself; do not let the AI supply them.
- Compare the rewrite with the original so no medication, dose, restriction or follow-up was dropped or changed.
- Use the teach-back question with the patient, then paste the checked version into your own discharge paperwork.
Tools and cost
USD unless stated otherwise. Billing periods and eligibility matter. A tool listed here was not necessarily tested in the cited study.
Individual clinician verification
Eligible clinician workspace: sign in Settings → Agreements; authority to sign required.
What the evidence supports
Rewriting 50 discharge summaries reduced mean reading grade level from 11.0 to 6.2. Safety concerns appeared in 18 of 100 physician reviews, commonly because of omissions.
Primary study · Read the source ↗
Where it goes wrong
Lower reading grade level is not proof of better patient understanding. Compare the rewrite with the original, especially medications, follow-up and return precautions. The cited study evaluated the rewriting system its authors tested; that evidence does not validate this editorial prompt or ChatGPT for Clinicians.