• J Nurses Staff Dev · Mar 2011

    Patient education materials from the layperson's perspective: the importance of readability.

    • Alyson W Blanck and Caroline Marshall.
    • Danbury Hospital, Connecticut 06810, USA. alyson.blanck@danhosp.org
    • J Nurses Staff Dev. 2011 Mar 1; 27 (2): E8-10; quiz E11-2.

    AbstractAccessible patient-friendly materials are a useful and cost-effective way of increasing patients' knowledge and allaying their fears. This article describes how nursing leadership at a hospital in Connecticut created a patient education committee to review and help draft materials and developed a Web site to centralize these materials for staff and patients. A patient panel was implemented to test materials; results highlighted the need for planning and testing of materials on target audiences.

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