K Fasna, Saima Yunus Khan, Ayesha Ahmad, Manoj Kumar Sharma
Exploring the association between early childhood caries, malnutrition, and anemia by machine learning algorithm
Journal of the Indian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry
guidelines recommend healthrelated information patients written sixthgrade level sought evaluate readability level quality online patient education materials regarding epidural spinal anesthesia evaluated webpages content written specifically regarding either spinal epidural anesthesia identified using 11 relevant search terms seven commonly used readability formulas fleshkincaid grade level fkgl gunning fox index gfi colemanliau index cli automated readability index ari simple measure gobbledygook smog flesch reading ease fre new dalechall ndc two evaluators assessed quality reading materials using brief discern tool analyzed 261 webpages mean standard deviation readability scores fkgl 88 19 gfi 112 22 cli 103 19 ari 81 22 smog 116 16 fre 557 108 ndc 54 10 mean grade level higher recommended sixthgrade level calculated six seven readability formulas average brief discern score 160 readability levels online patient education materials pertaining epidural spinal anesthesia higher recommended evaluated quality information using validated tool materials found threshold considered good quality authors educational materials provide readable also goodquality information enhance patient understanding