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Assessing Consumer Health Vocabulary Familiarity: An Exploratory Study

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 addres...

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Autores principales: Keselman, Alla, Tse, Tony, Crowell, Jon, Browne, Allen, Ngo, Long, Zeng, Qing
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Gunther Eysenbach 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1874513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17478414
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.9.1.e5