????Abdulla Watad|Nicola Luigi Bragazzi|Francesco Brigo|?assem Sharif|Howard Amital|Dennis McGonagle|Yehuda Shoenfeld|Mohammad Adawi
Readability of Wikipedia Pages on Autoimmune Disorders: Systematic Quantitative Assessment
Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University|University of Genoa|University of Verona|Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University|Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University|NIHR Leeds Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit|University of Leeds|Sheba Medical Center|Tel Aviv University|Rebecca Sieff Hospital
era new information communication technologies internet increasingly accessed healthrelated information indeed recently published patient surveys people autoimmune disorders confirmed internet reported one important health information sources wikipedia free online encyclopedia launched 2001 generally one visited websites worldwide often consulted healthrelated informationthe main objective investigation quantitatively assess whether wikipedia pages related autoimmune disorders easily accessed patients families terms readabilitywe obtained downloaded list autoimmune disorders american autoimmune related diseases association aarda website analyzed wikipedia articles overall level readability 6 different quantitative readability scales 1 flesch reading ease 2 gunning fog index 3 colemanliau index 4 fleschkincaid grade level 5 automated readability index ari 6 simple measure gobbledygook smog investigated correlation readability clinical pathological epidemiological parameters moreover wikipedia analysis assessed according content breaking readability indices main topic part namely pathogenesis treatment diagnosis prognosis plus section containing paragraphs falling previous categorieswe retrieved 134 diseases aarda website flesch reading ease yielded mean score 2434 sd 1073 indicating sites difficult read best understood university graduates mean gunning fog index ari scores 1687 sd 203 1406 sd 212 respectively colemanliau index fleschkincaid grade level yielded mean scores 1448 sd 157 1486 195 respectively mean smog score 1538 sd 137 readability indices confirmed sites suitable university graduate reading level found correlation readability clinical pathological epidemiological parameters differences among different sections wikipedia pages statistically significantwikipedia pages related autoimmune disorders characterized low level readability onus therefore physicians health authorities improve health literacy skills patients families create together patients diseasespecific readable sites disseminating highly accessible healthrelated online information terms clarity conciseness