Readability of online patient education material for foregut surgery

• Published in: Surgical endoscopy Vol. 38; no. 9; pp. 5259 - 5265
• Main Authors: Chang, Michelle, Weiss, Barry, Worrell, Stephanie, Hsu, Chiu-Hsieh, Ghaderi, Iman
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.09.2024; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: 2024 SAGES Oral; Abdominal Surgery; Comprehension; Gastroenterology; Gynecology; Health education; Health Literacy; Hepatology; Humans; Internet; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Multimedia; Patient education; Patient Education as Topic - methods; Proctology; Readability; Surgery; Foregut surgery; Health literacy; Patient education; Readability

Introduction Health literacy is the ability of individuals to use basic health information and services to make well-informed decisions. Low health literacy among surgical patients has been associated with nonadherence to preoperative and/or discharge instructions as well as poor comprehension of su...