• Creating Easier to Read Documents
  Use these resources to help you create easier to read documents that your patients will understand.
   

  What is Plain Language?	Writing the Message by Doak
  Online copy of Teaching Patients with Low Literacy Skills by Doak.	The Health Literacy Style Manual
  Scientific & Technical Information "Simply Put" from the CDC.

• Testing for Readability
  If you would like your document tested for reading level, please send it electronically to Ann Phillips, Consumer Health Librarian, at ann.phillips@osfhealthcare.org or Cindy Mead, RN, Patient Education Committee Chair.  Documents are tested using Readability Plus software for 3 different formulas: Fry, SMOG, and Flesch Reading Ease. 

• Health Literacy Presentations from the 2005 LSTA Grant

Sandy Salverson, PharmD,
Pharmacy Grand Rounds

Mark Williams, MD,
Medical Grand Rounds

Carol Galganski, MSLS & Golda Ewaldt, RD, OSF Nursing Summit

Laraine Walters, Dietetic Intern, Nutrition Luncheon