PREPARING READABLE PATIENT EDUCATION HANDOUTS
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal for Nurses in Staff Development
- Vol. 15 (1) , 11-18
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00124645-199901000-00002
Abstract
Printed health educational materials, such as patient information handouts, booklets, pamphlets, and information sheets are among the most common and extensively used teaching tools (Rankin & Stallings, 1996). In this article, the author reports (1) the readability of patient information handouts developed by the nursing division and (2) the effect on the patient-teaching task force members of instruction on the readability of patient information handouts at a 79-bed community hospital in Southern Ontario.Keywords
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