Abstract:
:Background: Besides the function as one of the main contact points, websites of hospitals serve as medical information portals. As medical information texts should be understood by any patients independent of the literacy skills and educational level, online texts should have an appropriate structure to ease understandability. Materials and Methods: Patient information texts on websites of clinics for general surgery at German university hospitals (n = 36) were systematically analysed. For 9 different surgical topics representative medical information texts were extracted from each website. Using common readability tools and 5 different readability indices the texts were analysed concerning their readability and structure. The analysis was furthermore stratified in relation to geographical regions in Germany. Results: For the definite analysis the texts of 196 internet websites could be used. On average the texts consisted of 25 sentences and 368 words. The reading analysis tools congruously showed that all texts showed a rather low readability demanding a high literacy level from the readers. Conclusion: Patient information texts on German university hospital websites are difficult to understand for most patients. To fulfill the ambition of informing the general population in an adequate way about medical issues, a revision of most medical texts on websites of German surgical hospitals is recommended.
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Zentralbl Chirjournal_title
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgieauthors
Esfahani BJ,Faron A,Roth KS,Grimminger PP,Luers JCdoi
10.1055/s-0034-1383381subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-12-01 00:00:00pages
639-644issue
6eissn
0044-409Xissn
1438-9592journal_volume
141pub_type
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
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更新日期:2006-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2004-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2017-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1977-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1055/s-2008-1077021
更新日期:2008-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1977-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1055/s-2002-22026
更新日期:2002-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1055/s-2004-822607
更新日期:2004-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1989-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1979-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:1999-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00