Table 1.

Google Website Demographics

Websitea	Accurate	Mentions Organ Donation	Audience	Passive Sentences (%)	Reading Easeb	Grade Level
Wikipedia: Brain Death	Yes	Yes	Public	25	28.2	16.3
Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine: The Diagnosis of Brain Death	Yes	Yes	Professional	21	26.2	13.2
Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association: Brain Death, Cardiac Death, and the Dead Donor Rule	No	Yes	Professional	15	43.1	12
American Academy of Neurology: Determining Brain Death in Adults	Yes	Yes	Public	27	52.4	8.9
WebMD: What “Brain-Dead” Means	Yes	Yes	Public	13	63.7	8.9
Finger Lakes Donor Recovery Network: Understanding Brain Death and Organ Donation	Yes	Yes	Public	18	65.9	7.8
Huffington Post: How Long Will a Brain-Dead Person’s Body Keep Working?	No	Yes	Public	34	42.8	12.4
FindLaw: Brain Death vs Persistent Vegetative State	Yes	Yes	Professional	25	41.6	12.7
CNN: Why Brain Dead Means Really Dead	No	No	Public	10	51.7	10.6
Bob Enyart Live: “Brain Dead” Means “Not Dead”; Don’t Trust That Diagnosis	No	Yes	Public	13	51.8	11.5

^aAccessed May 24, 2017.

^bReading Ease: increased scores indicate a piece of text is easier to read; a score of 60 to 70 is considered “plain English.”