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Summary of readability of co-created patient education material
| Summary statistics (5 pages, 203 sentences + images) | ||
| Word count = 1,654 | ||
| Character count = 8,251 | ||
| Complex words (≥3 syllables) = 268 | ||
| Average characters per word = 5 | ||
| Average words per sentence = 8.1 | ||
| Instrument | Score | Grade level |
| Flesch Reading Ease | 67.6 | 8-9th |
| Flesch-Kincaid Reading Level | 5.9 | 6th |
| Gunning Fog Index | 9.7 | 9-10th |
| Coleman Liau Index | 8.8 | 8-9th |
| SMOG | 9.7 | 9th |
| Automated Readability Index | 6.1 | 6th |
| Mean | 8.0 | 8th grade |
