Study on Text Readability of Online Healthcare Information

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  • AKAGI Shinya
    Graduate School of Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology
  • NOTOMI Kazuhiro
    Graduate School of Engineering, Kanagawa Institute of Technology
  • SAITO Keiichi
    Graduate School of Health and Welfare Sciences, International University of Health and Welfare

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  • オンラインヘルスケア情報の可読性分析

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<p>In this paper, we analyze about the readability of online healthcare information in Japanese medical documents. Nowadays, in Japan, the Internet reaches nearly 90% penetrations. All people who interested in healthcare information gather the information about that through the Internet. If medical documents tend to be difficult to read, it will be likely to cause misunderstanding among patients. In the US states, life insurance policies are assured the text readability by using the readability indices (i.e. FRE). We proposed the readability indices for Japanese (i.e. jRE) named “Variable Replacement Method” which is based on the readability indices for English. Our proposed method is able to be used for assuring text readability in Japanese medical document on previous studies. This paper reports the results about text readability analysis using proposed method in Japanese healthcare information, for the purpose of verification whether proposed method is able to use other medical document.</p>

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