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Reducing the Use of Complex Words and Reducing Sentence Length to <15 Words Improves Readability of Patient Education Materials Regarding Sports Medicine Knee Injuries

PURPOSE: To develop a standardized method to improve readability of orthopaedic patient education materials (PEMs) without diluting their critical content by reducing the use of complex words (≥3 syllables) and shortening sentence length to ≤15 words. METHODS: OrthoInfo, a patient education website...

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Autores principales: Hanish, Stefan J., Cherian, Nathan, Baumann, John, Gieg, Samuel D., DeFroda, Steven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9971903/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36866291
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asmr.2022.10.004