VAS has been reworded to improve readability and is written at a third grade level [ 3] for easier comprehension by parents with low education.
Therefore, there appears to be a gap in knowledge provision that could be filled by a website with high quality information, explaining to the general public specifically what generic medicines are (including dispelling any myths about generic drugs) which is also designed and written to maximize readability.
His strength was always in his immense readability, and he emphasised "writing as though it mattered", which is why one suspects he'd be a fan of Ali Smith.
On the other hand, this finding provides a foundation to consider interventions to enhance OHL, or rather improve the readability of written materials and accessibility to dental services to an appropriate literacy level [ 30].
Researchers should routinely compute the reading ease of study information sheets and make greater efforts to improve the readability of written documents for potential participants.
The readability of written material should not exceed the reading age of 12 years old and for US and UK populations ideally be aimed at eighth grade (13 14 years old) and grades 5 6 (10 11 years old), respectively [1, 13].
Only one article to date has reported the readability of written study information for minors [20].
The readability of written study information intended for children asked to participate in clinical research was uniformly poor, and much worse than that of the texts usually read by children.
These findings are consistent with those of a prior study, published in 1997, on the readability of a convenience sample of 10 AD forms derived from various government and nongovernment sources [ 12] and of hundreds of studies on the readability of materials written for patients [ 5, 8].
When Fearing ran for re-election to the court last year, he said "appellate courts should hire an excellent writer, without any legal background, to review and edit decisions for their readability," and he pledged: "I will write opinions in language understandable to lay readers".
