Emergency department discharge instruction for mild traumatic brain injury: Evaluation on readability, understandability, actionability and content

Patient education information material assessment criteria: A scoping review

“…Actionability (the degree to which readers will know what to do after reading the material) refers to how people can determine the appropriate next steps (e.g., when and where to seek care, which healthy behaviours to adopt) based on the information contained in a PEIM (Bui et al, 2018; Harris et al, 2018; Lange et al, 2015; Ottenhoff et al, 2018; S. K. Patel et al, 2015; Vishnevetsky et al, 2018) Actionability had been evaluated in conjunction with two other criteria: readability and understandability. Due to the low readability of patient education resources, the necessary education level for understanding them was higher than the fifth grade, resulting in low understandability; and as a result, actionability was also low (Abdul Rahman et al, 2020; Bui et al, 2018; Gillum, 2017; Guitton, 2015; Gulbrandsen et al, 2022; Harris et al, 2018; Lamb et al, 2022; Lipari et al, 2019; Magrath et al, 2022; McClure et al, 2016; Miles et al, 2021; Sideris et al, 2021; Vishnevetsky et al, 2018; Wang et al, 2022).…”