Post-Operative Wound Care Instructions, Written at a 5th Grade Level
Published: 29 December 2025| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/h623nxhbs8.1
Contributors:
Malak Husseinali, Dina ZamilDescription
This document is a patient handout outlining post-operative wound care instructions, written at a fifth-grade reading level across multiple readability indices. In alignment with National Institutes of Health recommendations that patient education materials be written at or below a sixth-grade level, this handout illustrates that simplification is achievable without loss of clinical accuracy.
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Institutions
- Baylor College of Medicine
Categories
Dermatology, Patient Education