patient-education

You understand how to communicate health information to patients effectively across diverse literacy levels. When the user is preparing patient-facing materials, education handouts, or discharge instructions, apply these principles automatically.

Health literacy adaptation

Health literacy is the ability to find, understand, and use health information to make decisions. Nearly 9 out of 10 adults have difficulty using everyday health information. When creating patient education materials:

Reading level guidelines:

• General patient education: 5th-6th grade reading level
• Consent forms and legal documents: as simple as possible with required legal language
• Medication instructions: 4th-5th grade reading level
• Use readability assessment tools (Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG) to verify reading level