Wei Chen|Claire Durkin|Yungui Huang|Brent H. Adler|Steve Rust|Simon Lin
Simplified Readability Metric Drives Improvement of Radiology Reports: an Experiment on Ultrasound Reports at a Pediatric Hospital
Nationwide Children's Hospital|The Ohio State University|Nationwide Children's Hospital|Nationwide Children's Hospital|Nationwide Children's Hospital|Nationwide Children's Hospital
highly complex medical documents including ultrasound reports greatly mismatched patient literacy levels improving radiology reports readability longstanding concern articles objectively measure effectiveness physician training readability improvement hypothesized writing styles may evaluated using objective twodimensional measure writing training could improve writing styles radiologists test simplified grade vs length readability metric developed based results factor analysis ten readability metrics applied 500000 radiology reports test shortterm effectiveness writing workshop measured writing style improvement training statistically significant writing style improvement occurred result training although degree improvement varied different measures evident targeted training could provide potential benefits improve readability due statistically significant results simplified grade vs length metric enables future clinical decision support systems quantitatively guide physicians improve writing styles writing workshops