Computerized versus hand-scored health literacy tools: a comparison of Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) and Flesch-Kincaid in printed patient education materials
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Computerized versus hand-scored health literacy tools: a comparison of Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) and Flesch-Kincaid in printed patient education materials
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Medical Library Association
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1558-9439,1536-5050
DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2018.262