Abstract The readability of scientific texts is critical for the successful distribution research findings. I replicate a recent study which found that abstracts articles in life sciences became less readable over time. Specifically, sample 28,345 from 17 leading journals field management and organization 3 decades, two established indicators time, namely Flesch Reading Ease New Dale–Chall Read...

BACKGROUND Surgical informed consent forms should have evidence that their use will enhance a shared decision-making which is the fundamental objective of informed consent in clinical practice. In the absence of any guideline in Nigeria on the content and language of informed consent forms, we sort to examine the surgical and procedure consent forms used by Federal tertiary health institutions ...

BACKGROUND With increasing attention given to the quality of chronic disease care, a measurement approach that empowers consumers to participate in improving quality of care and enables health services to systematically introduce patient-centered initiatives is needed. A Web-based survey with complex adaptive questioning and interactive survey items would allow consumers to easily identify and ...

BACKGROUND Prescribing incompetence is an important factor that contributes to prescribing error, and this is often due to inadequate training during medical schools. We therefore aimed to develop and validate an instrument to assess the prescribing readiness of medical students (PROMS) in Malaysia. METHODS The PROMS comprised of 26 items with four domains: undergraduate learning opportunitie...

BACKGROUND Studies have been conducted on the content and quality of Web-based information for patients who are interested in smoking cessation advice and for health care practitioners regarding the content of e-learning programs about tobacco cessation. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no such information about the quality of Web-based learning resources regarding smoking cessat...

Health communication is critical component of effective health delivery. While there are studies on the readability Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) around world, so far, only one Ghanaian study that explored language patient information leaflets for malaria. The present explores PILs seven common ailments in Ghana. In all, 68 were purposely sampled study. Using SMOG and Flesch Kincaid grade...