ArticleEuropean heart journal. Imaging methods and practice2025
Readability of patient education materials on cardiac magnetic resonance imaging.
Article in European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Artificial Intelligence-enhanced cardiac MRI reporting: expert validation and patient-centered outcomes.The international journal of cardiovascular imaging · 2026Article
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Abstract
Aims: We assessed the readability level of online patient education materials (PEMs) for cardiac MRI (CMRI) to determine whether they meet the standard health literacy needs as determined by the US National Institutes of Health and the American Medical Association guidelines. Methods and results: We evaluated the readability of CMRI PEMs from 5 websites using the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease (FKRE), Flesch-Kincaid grade level (FKGL), Gunning-Fog Index (GFI), Simple Measure of Gobbledygook index (SMOGI), Coleman-Liau Index (CLI), and Automated Readability Index (ARI). PEMs on the British Heart Foundation (BHF) website yielded the highest mean FKRE score, while the RadiologyInfo.org (RadInfo) website yielded the highest mean score on the CLI compared to all the other websites. Statistical analysis of individual predictors revealed that average words per sentence ( Conclusion: The BHF and American Heart Association emphasize accessible CMRI communication, whereas RadInfo, InsRad, and the European Society of Cardiology PEMs may be less suitable for low-health-literacy audiences. Strategies aimed at enhancing the comprehensibility of patient education materials should primarily focus on reducing the average complexity of words and shortening average sentence lengths.
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