Evaluation of the Readability of Dermatological Postoperative Patient Information Leaflets Across England

Hunt, William; McGrath, Emily

doi:10.1097/dss.0000000000000720

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“…Guidance from the American Medical Association suggests that PIL readability levels should be ≤ grade 6 US (11–12‐years old) . A recent study demonstrated that less than 30% of 85 UK dermatology postoperative PILs attained this threshold …”

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Evaluation of Australian dermatological postoperative patient information leaflets: Should we have a national checklist?

2017

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Evaluation of Australian dermatological postoperative patient information leaflets: Should we have a national checklist?

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“…Patient information leaflets (PILs) are resources that provide education and reassurance to patients, and supplement information provided to them by clinicians during consultations. 1 The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) website provides PILs that intended to supplement clinic consultations, aiming to ensure access to accurate, reliable and trustworthy information. They are written by dermatologists, and are reviewed and edited by the BAD Therapy and Guideline subcommittee and additionally by a PILs Lay Review Panel.…”

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Readability assessment of the British Association of Dermatologists’ patient information leaflets

Hunt

Sofela

Mustapa

2022

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

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Background. The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) develops and produces patient information leaflets (PILs) for British clinicians and the general public, and its website provides access to all the PILs. Health literacy across the UK remains variable. Readability instruments assess the comprehensibility of text, predominately using a composite of sentence length and/or word-syllable number. Instruments usually report text readability categorized by United States (US) grades; ideally, health literature should be rated at US grade ≤ 6 (UK Year 7; age 11-12 years). Methods. In collaboration with the BAD, PILs on the BAD website (n = 203) were downloaded for readability assessment. PILs were processed prior to analysis using Readability Studio software (Oleander Software, Vandalia, OH, USA). Established readability metrics were used: Flesch-Kincaid (FK), Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG), Gunning fog index (GFI), Fry, FORCAST and Flesch Reading Ease (FRE). Results. The mean (95% CI) US grade levels for all BAD PILs were

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Editor's Spotlight/Take 5: Readability of Orthopaedic Patient-reported Outcome Measures: Is There a Fundamental Failure to Communicate?

Wongworawat

2017

Clinical Orthopaedics &Amp; Related Research

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Evaluation of the Readability of Dermatological Postoperative Patient Information Leaflets Across England

Abstract: Most English postoperative dermatological PILs' readability levels exceed recommendations (US grade ≤6). Departmental PILs should be reviewed to ensure that they are comprehensible to their patients.

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Evaluation of Australian dermatological postoperative patient information leaflets: Should we have a national checklist?

Evaluation of Australian dermatological postoperative patient information leaflets: Should we have a national checklist?

Readability assessment of the British Association of Dermatologists’ patient information leaflets

Editor's Spotlight/Take 5: Readability of Orthopaedic Patient-reported Outcome Measures: Is There a Fundamental Failure to Communicate?

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