CAPACITY Resource Guide

From the National Patient Safety Foundation. Provider and patient information about health literacy.

The Health Literacy Tool Shed is an online database of health literacy measures. The site contains information about measures, including their psychometric properties, based on a review of the peer-reviewed literature. From Boston University.

From MedlinePlus.

From AHRQ, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

From the Plain Language Action and Information Network (PLAIN), a group of federal employees from many different agencies and specialties.

A resource that shows research teams how to create consent forms and other patient materials in plain language.

Tips for creating easy-to-read print materials. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

From Microsoft. Assess your document using the Flesch Reading Ease or the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level tests

From the Institute of Medicine, 2012.

Training materials include Writing for the Public; Using Numbers and Explaining Risk; Creating Easier to Understand Lists, Charts, and Graphs; Speaking with the Public.

Phyllis Easton, Vikki A Entwistle, Brian Williams BMC Public Health. 2010; 10: 459. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-459

From the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM).

Hersh L, Salzman B, Snyderman D. Am Fam Physician. 2015;92(2):118–124.

From CMS.gov (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)

From the National Academy of Medicine.