CONTEXT According to the american medical association (AMA) and the national institutes of health (NIH), the recommended readability of patient education materials should be no greater than a sixth-grade reading level. The online patient education information produced by the american academy of orthopaedic surgeons (AAOS) may be too complicated for some patients to understand. This study evalua...

OBJECTIVE To assess the readability of online tracheostomy care resources. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Academic center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A Google search was performed for "tracheostomy care" in January 2014. The top 50 results were categorized into major versus minor websites and patient-oriented versus professional-oriented resources. These websites were evaluated wit...

BACKGROUND The aim was to evaluate the readability of research information leaflets (RIL) for minors asked to participate in biomedical research studies and to assess the factors influencing this readability. METHODS AND FINDINGS All the pediatric protocols from three French pediatric clinical research units were included (N = 104). Three criteria were used to evaluate readability: length of ...

Information about benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) has become increasingly accessible on the Internet. Though the ability to find such material is encouraging, its readability and impact on informing patient decision making are not known. To evaluate the readability of Internet-based information about BPH in the context of website ownership and Health on the Net certification, three search en...

Studies have shown that modern methods of readability assessment, using automated linguistic analysis and machine learning (ML), is a viable road forward for readability classification and ranking. In this paper we present a study of different levels of analysis and a large number of features and how they affect an ML-system’s accuracy when it comes to readability assessment. We test a large nu...

Text classification is a process where documents are categorized usually by topic, place, readability easiness, etc. For text classification by topic, a well-known method is Singular Value Decomposition. For text classification by readability, “Flesh Reading Ease index” calculates the readability easiness level of a document (e.g. easy, medium, advanced). In this paper, we propose Singular Valu...

This study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. Thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. The qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate EFL learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

obtaining informed consents is one of the most fundamental principles in conducting a clinical trial. in order for the consent to be informed, the patient must receive and comprehend the information appropriately. complexity of the consent form is a common problem that has been shown to be a major barrier to comprehension for many patients. the objective of this study was to assess the readabil...

With the development of the global economy and the ease of air transportation, extra emphasis has been placed on flight safety. There are precise specifications and procedures in the operation and maintenance of aircraft. Human errors and mechanical disorders are two key factors of flight safety. The maintenance personnel need to follow an outlined procedure to avoid human errors and ensure fli...