Patient Education Readability Checker
Make your handout easy to read.
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1. Your handout
2. Readability
Average grade level
Flesch Reading Ease
(0 to 100, higher is easier)
Dot: your text. Line: your target. Green: at or below target.
This text does not look like English. The formulas and word list are designed for English, so these scores may be misleading.
Short text: scores are less reliable under about 100 words or 5 sentences.
| Formula | Grade | What it measures |
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SMOG was designed for samples of 30 sentences or more, so treat it as a rough guide for shorter texts.
Each heading and list item counts as one sentence; lines wrapped inside a paragraph are joined. Other checkers, such as Microsoft Word, may count differently and give a somewhat higher grade.
3. What to fix
Each item links to the passage in your text. Fix the biggest problems first: medical words, then long sentences.
Medical and formal words 0
Long sentences 0
Possible passive voice 0
Other plain-language checks 0
4. Highlighted text
Long sentence Medical or formal word Possible passive voice
5. Before and after
6. Plain-language checklist
Formulas only count words and sentences. Tick these yourself. For a full review, use the AHRQ PEMAT.
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Writing support only. Readability formulas estimate how hard text is to read from word and sentence length. They do not check whether health information is accurate, current or right for a particular patient, and they do not judge layout, pictures or cultural fit. Have a clinician review the content and test it with people from your audience. Not medical advice. See the terms and disclaimer and privacy notice.