Assessing Consumer Health Vocabulary Familiarity: An Exploratory Study

• Main Authors: Keselman, Alla (Author), Tse, Tony (Author), Crowell, Jon (Author), Browne, Allen (Author), Ngo, Long (Author), Zeng, Qing (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2007-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Accurate assessment of the difficulty of consumer health texts is a prerequisite for improving readability. General purpose readability formulas based primarily on word length are not well suited for the health domain, where short technical terms may be unfamiliar to consumers. To address...