The Reading Level of Surgical Consent Forms in Hand Surgery
Purpose: The average United States adult reads at an eighth-grade reading level. In an effort to ensure that patients understand written medical information, the National Institutes of Health and American Medical Association suggest that patient-directed material be written at a sixth- to eighth-gra...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2019-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online |
| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589514119300271 |