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Assessing Readability of Patient Education Materials: Current Role in Orthopaedics

Badarudeen, Sameer ; Sabharwal, Sanjeev

Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 2010-10, Vol.468 (10), p.2572-2580 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York: Springer-Verlag

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Assessing Readability of Patient Education Materials: Current Role in Orthopaedics
Autor: Badarudeen, Sameer ; Sabharwal, Sanjeev
Assuntos: Access to Information ; Audiovisual Aids ; Biological and medical sciences ; Comprehension ; Conservative Orthopedics ; Diseases of the osteoarticular system ; Educational Measurement ; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ; Health Literacy ; Health Policy ; Humans ; Information Dissemination ; Internet ; Medical Informatics ; Medical sciences ; Medicine ; Medicine & Public Health ; Orthopedics ; Orthopedics - education ; Patient Education as Topic ; Reading ; Sports Medicine ; Surgery ; Surgical Orthopedics ; Symposium: ABJS Carl T. Brighton Workshop on Health Informatics
É parte de: Clinical orthopaedics and related research, 2010-10, Vol.468 (10), p.2572-2580
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Descrição: 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 possess to understand the written material. Questions/purposes In this article, some of the commonly used readability assessment tools are discussed and guidelines to improve the comprehension of patient education handouts are provided. Where are we now? Several healthcare organizations have recommended the readability of patient education materials be no higher than sixth- to eighth-grade level. However, most of the patient education materials currently available on major orthopaedic Web sites are written at a reading level that may be too advanced for comprehension by a substantial proportion of the population. Where do we need to go? There are several readily available and validated tools for assessing the readability of written materials. While use of audiovisual aids such as video clips, line drawings, models, and charts can enhance the comprehension of a health-related topic, standard readability tools cannot construe such enhancements. How do we get there? Given the variability in the capacity to comprehend health-related materials among individuals seeking orthopaedic care, stratifying the contents of patient education materials at different levels of complexity will likely improve health literacy and enhance patient-centered communication.
Editor: New York: Springer-Verlag
Idioma: Inglês

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Assessing Readability of Patient Education Materials: Current Role in Orthopaedics

Badarudeen, Sameer ; Sabharwal, Sanjeev

New York: Springer-Verlag

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