2013
DOI: 10.1007/s00106-013-2799-8
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Systematic analysis of the readability of patient information on websites of German nonuniversity ENT hospitals

Abstract: The majority of patient information texts on German hospital websites are difficult to understand for most patients. In order to fulfil their goal of adequately informing the general population about disease, therapeutic options and the particular focal points of the clinic, a revision of most medical texts on the websites of German ENT hospitals is recommended.

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“…Although the FRE score was first developed for English, it has been adapted to the German language by Amstad (1978) and applied in other disciplines (e.g. Meyer et al, 2014). Thus, we can comfortably apply the measure to our data.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the FRE score was first developed for English, it has been adapted to the German language by Amstad (1978) and applied in other disciplines (e.g. Meyer et al, 2014). Thus, we can comfortably apply the measure to our data.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In general, a higher readability index of over 70 is targeted for comparable PILs. 17 The readability index of the original version of the text was originally 38.5. We obtained an index of 51.4 by rewording and changing the choice of words.…”
Section: Readability Scorementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Healthcare information in the field of otorhinolaryngology is provided by many hospitals and professional associations. Investigations are available about non-university hospitals in Germany [92] and about university ENT departments in Germany [93] and the USA [94]. Besides, in the USA the websites of the professional associations of otorhinolaryngology and neighboring disciplines were analyzed [95][96][97][98][99][100].…”
Section: Investigationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The ENT society in the USA is midrange in this context [102]. Consequences that might be taken from the reported discrepancy between the difficulty of available healthcare information and the average reading skills of the patients are still discussed [67] and even the general question arises if hospitals should provide online healthcare information at all [92].…”
Section: Investigationsmentioning
confidence: 99%