Table 2.

Readability and Understandability of Top ‘Hepatology Centers’ Searches

Website	Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level	Number of Sentences	Words per Sentence	Word Count	Time to read for 6th grade level (min)	PEMAT (A/V) Score (%)
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics	6.7	79	11.03	827	5.91	64
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center	6.8	79	11.07	830	5.93	50
Johns Hopkins Medical Center	7.9	104	14.03	1319	9.42	90
Northwestern Medicine	8.0	104	14.06	1322	9.44	90
University of California Los Angeles Medical Center	8.0	104	14.06	1322	9.44	90
Emory Healthcare	9.8	19	14.53	276	1.97	40
Mayo Clinic	10.1	194	14.63	2677	19.12	64
Ohio State University Medical Center	10.3	12	15.91	175	1.25	73
Baylor Medical Center	10.5	113	15.59	1653	11.81	75
Barnes Jewish Hospital	11.3	20	19.19	307	2.19	70
Cleveland Clinic	11.4	89	18.65	1399	9.99	82
Stanford Medicine	12.1	64	15.65	767	5.48	70
Vanderbilt University Medical Center	12.1	18	21.41	364	2.6	60
Piedmont Hospital	12.2	47	16.05	674	4.81	80
University of California San Francisco Medical Center	12.8	35	21.12	679	4.85	80
Lahey Clinic	14.1	60	22.60	904	6.46	82
Henry Ford Health System	14.4	41	22.87	686	4.9	90
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	15.2	29	28.46	683	4.88	55
Mt. Sinai Healthcare	15.4	55	17.58	798	5.7	64
Georgetown Medical Hospital	17.2	17	31.85	414	2.96	80
Average	11.3	64.15	18.02	904	6.46	72.45
Standard Deviation	2.44	50.53	3.23	677.61	4.19	14.21

Mean and standard deviation of the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, number of sentences, number of words per sentence, word count, time for an average sixth grader to read, and PEMAT score of the top 20 web results from the ‘Hepatology Centers’ search; PEMAT A/V: Patient Education Material Assessment Tool (Audiovisual Materials).