Lung cancer screening: assessment of health literacy and readability of online educational resources

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Flesch-Kincaid analysis of lung cancer educational materials

Source of Web site	N	Grade level range	Average grade level and standard deviation
Academic Medical Centers	18	6.4–15.6	10.7±2.10
Non-academic Hospital System or Network^a	8	7.1–13.1	10.1±2.15
Lung Cancer organizations	5	7.4–13.9	10.1±2.18
Government^b	3	7.5–9.8	8.5±0.96
Community/Private Hospitals	9	9.0–13.6	11.3±1.63
Public Web sites^c	3	10.1–16.3	12.7±2.63
Total	46	6.4–16.3	10.6±2.20

^aA hospital system is two or more hospitals owned, leased, sponsored, or contract managed by a central organization, while a network is a group of hospitals, physicians, other providers, insurers and/or community agencies that coordinate and deliver a broad spectrum of services to their community [56]
^bCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, United States Preventive Services Task Force, National Cancer Institute
^cWikipedia, Radiologyinfo.org, ShouldIScreen.com

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