Introduction: Medical Assistance, Assistance and research, the principles initiated by Nuremberg Code, were materialized through written documents called Consent Forms. The present study aims to assess understanding of consent form in hospitals state São Paulo. Method: Terms that meet inclusion criteria retrieved analysis with textual readability analysis, specific online assessment instrument ...

IN A RECENT ISSUE of this journal, Fry (4) described "a readability formula that saves time." The panel immediately below gives a method of assessing readability which is even quicker—and so simple that one statistician who glanced at an earlier version of this paper thought that it was a "put on," a fake. Although this system, SMOG Grading, is laughably simple, it is in fact more valid than pr...

Readability criteria have been commonly used to measure the quality of graph visualizations. In this paper we argue that readability criteria, while necessary, are not sufficient. We propose a new kind of criterion, generically termed faithfulness, for evaluating graph layout methods. We propose a general model for quantifying faithfulness, and contrast it with the well established readability ...

STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of online spine-related patient education materials from leading academic centers. OBJECTIVE To assess the readability levels of spine surgery-related patient education materials available on the websites of academic orthopedic surgery departments. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA The Internet is becoming an increasingly popular resource for patient education...

The authors examine the degree to which first (L1) and second language (L2) speakers of English are able to distinguish between simplified or authentic reading texts from L2 instructional books and whether L1 and L2 speakers differ in their ability to process linguistic cues related to this distinction. These human judgments are also compared to computational judgments which are based on indice...

OBJECTIVE Americans are increasingly turning to the Internet as a source of health care information. These online resources should be written at a level readily understood by the average American. This study evaluates the readability of online patient education information available from the American Academy of Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) professional Web site us...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the readability of several published patient-reported outcome (PRO) questionnaires for use with persons who stutter, and to compare the readability results to existing data about average reading levels for English-speaking adults living in the United States. DESIGN Published PRO questionnaires were identified that are traditionally completed ...

The use for a readability classification model is mainly as an integrated part of an information retrieval system. By matching the user’s demands of readability to the documents with the corresponding readability, the classification model can further improve the results of, for example, a search engine. This thesis presents a new solution for classification into readability levels for Swedish. ...

We present OSMAN (Open Source Metric for Measuring Arabic Narratives) a novel open source Arabic readability metric and tool. It allows researchers to calculate readability for Arabic text with and without diacritics. OSMAN is a modified version of the conventional readability formulas such as Flesch and Fog. In our work we introduce a novel approach towards counting short, long and stress syll...

We investigate linguistic features that correlate with the readability of texts for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). Based on a corpus of texts (including some experimentally measured for comprehension by adults with ID), we analyze the significance of novel discourselevel features related to the cognitive factors underlying our users’ literacy challenges. We develop and evaluate a t...