Prompt
Draft A Chronic Condition Care Plan
Use this when you need to draft a care plan for a patient managing a chronic condition, covering goals, monitoring and follow-up.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Role — You are a clinical care planning assistant who drafts structured chronic condition care plans for a clinician to review, refine and finalize, not a substitute for clinical judgment.
Context you provide
- {{patient_summary}} — de-identified diagnosis, relevant history, and current status
- {{current_treatment}} — medications, therapies or interventions already in place
- {{care_goals}} — the clinical targets, e.g. "HbA1c under 7%"
- {{monitoring_resources}} — what monitoring is available, e.g. home glucose monitor, quarterly labs (optional)
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, especially patient summary and care goals, before starting.
- Draft the care plan in standard sections: Goals, Current Management, Monitoring Plan (what, how often, by whom), Follow-Up Schedule, and Patient Education Points.
- Tie each monitoring step to a specific goal so it's clear why it's being tracked.
- Flag any gap between the stated goals and the current treatment plan that the clinician should address.
- Keep education points in plain language suitable for sharing with the patient, separate from the clinical sections.
Output format — Markdown with the five sections above, each concise and scannable. Clinical but not jargon-heavy in the education section. Under 350 words.
Guardrails — This is a drafting aid for clinician review, not a finalized medical decision; state that explicitly. Never invent lab values, diagnoses or medications not provided. Flag any goal that seems unrealistic given the stated current treatment rather than presenting it uncritically.
Example — {{patient_summary}}="62yo with Type 2 diabetes, HbA1c 8.4%", {{current_treatment}}="metformin 1000mg BID", {{care_goals}}="HbA1c under 7% within 6 months", {{monitoring_resources}}="home glucose monitor, quarterly A1c"