Readability, suitability and comprehensibility in patient education materials for Swedish patients with colorectal cancer undergoing elective surgery: A mixed method design

Conclusion: Most of the patient education materials were rated ‘adequate’ but did not meet the information needs of patients entirely. Discharge brochures particularly require improvement.Practice implications: Using patients’ knowledge and integrating manual and automated methods could result in more appropriate patient education materials.

Source: Patient Education and Counseling - December 2, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Frida Smith, Eva Carlsson, Dimitrios Kokkinakis, Markus Forsberg, Karl Kodeda, Richard Sawatzky, Febe Friberg, Joakim Öhlén Tags: Patient Education Source Type: research