Assessing Readability of Patient Education Materials: Current Role in Orthopaedics

Badarudeen, Sameer; Sabharwal, Sanjeev

doi:10.1007/s11999-010-1380-y

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Assessing Readability of Patient Education Materials: Current Role in Orthopaedics

Published in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research • May 21, 2010

Authors:

Sameer Badarudeen

Sanjeev Sabharwal

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Health literacy is the single best predictor of an individual's health status. It is important to customize health-related education material to the individual patient's level of reading skills. Readability of a given text is the objective measurement of the reading skills one should pos...

Subject

Readability

Patient education

Medicine

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