METHODS: All top-rated tweets (as per Twitter algorithm) under #PlasticSurgery in January 2017 were retrospectively reviewed. Data from tweets with links to full, open access and society/ institutional patient information articles were extracted. Content and identity of the person tweeting was assessed. Readability was analyzed using established tests: Coleman-Liau, Flesch-Kincaid, Flesch Readi...

This paper examines the readability of the chairman’s narratives, as determined by the Flesch score, of a Malaysian public listed company’s corporate reports from 1962 to 2009. It partially supports earlier studies which demonstrated that corporate reports were difficult to read, and had shown very negligible decrease in difficulty over time. Net profit to sales and readability was significantl...

This paper investigates two strategies for collecting readability assessments, an Expert Readers application intended to collect fine-grained readability assessments from language experts and a Sort by Readability application designed to be intuitive and open for everyone having internet access. We show that the data sets resulting from both annotation strategies are very similar. We conclude t...

OBJECTIVE To assess the usability and validity of the Primary Care Practice Improvement Tool (PC-PIT), a practice performance improvement tool based on 13 key elements identified by a systematic review. It was co-created with a range of partners and designed specifically for primary health care. DESIGN This pilot study examined the PC-PIT using a formative assessment framework and mixed-metho...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Readability of Chinese texts considered in this paper is a multi-class classification problem with <inline-formula><tex-math id="M1">\begin{document}$ 12 $\end{document}</tex-math></inline-formula> grade classes corresponding to id="M2">\begin{document}$ 6 grades primary schools, id="M3">\begin{document}$ 3 middle and id="M4">\...

Form Design for High Accuracy Optical Character Recognition Michael D. Garris, [email protected] Darrin L. Dimmick, [email protected] National Institute of Standards and Technology, Building 225, Room A216 Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 Phone: (301)975-2928, FAX: (301)840-1357 Published in IEEE Transactions PAMI, June 1996. ABSTRACT Financial institutions, insurance companies, and gover...

BACKGROUND Significant knowledge gaps exist related to evaluating health product risk communication effectiveness in a regulatory setting. To this end, Health Canada is assessing methods to evaluate the effectiveness of their health product risk communications in an attempt to identify best practices. OBJECTIVE We examined the health literacy burden of Public Advisories (PAs) before and after...

Context The RESTORE programme comprises a randomised controlled trial, three pilot trials, a cohort study, qualitative studies and systematic reviews. Since 2010, the patient panel (PEP-R), has inputted into RESTORE. Seventeen patients have been involved in total, 8 were recruited at the time of the evaluation. Through facilitated group sessions, PEP-R provides input into refinement of patient ...

The paper illustrates the results of a case study aimed at investigating and enhancing the accessibility of Italian health– related documents by relying on advanced NLP techniques, with particular attention to informed consent forms. Results achieved show that the features automatically extracted from the linguistically annotated text and ranging across different levels of linguistic descriptio...