Readability assessment of online urology patient education materials

Journal of Urology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1048-1052

  Colaco, Marc ^a   Svider, Peter F ^a   Agarwal, Nitin ^a   Eloy, Jean Anderson ^a   Jackson, Imani M ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehension; Internet; patient education as topic; reading; urology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLEMAN LIAU INDEX; FLESCH KINCAID GRADE LEVEL; FLESCH READING EASE SCORE; FORCAST TEST; FRY SCORE; GUNNING FREQUENCY OF GOBBLEDYGOOK; HUMAN; INTERNET; NEW DALE CHALL TEST; NEW FOG COUNT; ONLINE SYSTEM; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAYGOR READABILITY ESTIMATE; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMPLE MEASURE OF GOBBLEDYGOOK; WEB BROWSER;

COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; TEACHING MATERIALS; UNITED STATES; UROLOGY;

EID: 84873712639     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: 15273792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.08.255     Document Type: Article

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