Availability and Readability of Online Patient Education Materials Regarding Regional Anesthesia Techniques for Perioperative Pain Management
Author(s) -
Gunjan Kumar,
Steven K. Howard,
Alex Kou,
T. Edward Kim,
Alexander J. Butwick,
Edward R. Mariano
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
pain medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1526-4637
pISSN - 1526-2375
DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnw179
Subject(s) - readability , medicine , perioperative , anesthesiology , anesthesia , pain medicine , medical education , computer science , programming language
Patient education materials (PEM) should be written at a sixth-grade reading level or lower. We evaluated the availability and readability of online PEM related to regional anesthesia and compared the readability and content of online PEM produced by fellowship and nonfellowship institutions.
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