Readability and Quality Assessment of Online Patient Education Materials for Spinal and Epidural Anesthesia
Why this work is in the frame
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
( Can J Anesth/J Can Anesth . 2024;71(8):1092–1102. doi: 10.1007/s12630-024-02771-9) A study assessed the readability and quality of online patient education materials about spinal and epidural anesthesia, focusing on whether they align with recommended guidelines for accessibility. The American Medical Association suggests health-related materials should be written at or below a sixth-grade reading level to ensure comprehension by a broad audience. The researchers utilized Google Search to evaluate 261 webpages found through 11 relevant search terms. Seven readability formulas were used, including the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Coleman–Liau Index (CLI), Gunning Fog Index (GFI), Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG), Flesch Reading Ease (FRE), New Dale–Chall (NDC), and Automated Readability Index (ARI).
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it