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Coinfections and antimicrobial use in patients hospitalized with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) across a single healthcare system in New York City: A retrospective cohort study
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online patient education materials opems increasingly popular resource women seeking information breast cancer ama recommends written patient material 6th grade level meet general publics health literacy metrics quality understandability actionability also heavily influence usability health information thus evaluated alongside readability systematic review metaanalysis conducted determine 1 average readability scores reporting methodologies breast cancer readability studies 2 inclusion frequency additional health literacyassociated metrics registered systematic review metaanalysis conducted ovid medline web science embasecom central via ovid clinicaltrialsgov june 2022 adherence prisma 2020 statement eligible studies performed readability analyses englishlanguage breast cancerrelated opems study characteristics readability data reporting nonreadability health literacy metrics extracted metaanalysis estimates derived generalized linear mixed modeling metaanalysis included 30 studies yielding 4462 opems overall average readability 1181 95 ci 1114 1249 significant difference p 0001 grouped opem categories commercial organizations highest average readability 122 113130 nonprofit organizations one lowest 113 106120 readability also varied index new fog lexile forcast lowest average scores 94 86 103 104 100 108 107 102 111 respectively 57 studies calculated average readability two indices 60 studies assessed opem metrics associated health literacy average readability breast cancer opems nearly double amas recommended 6th grade level readability health literacyassociated metrics inconsistently reported current literature standardization future readability studies focus holistic evaluation patient materials may aid shared decisionmaking critical increased screening rates breast cancer awareness