Health Literacy

Guidance on writing patient information from the NHS.

Sustersic M, Gauchet A, Foote A, Bosson J-L. How best to use and evaluate Patient Information Leaflets given during a consultation: a systematic review of literature reviews. Health Expectations. 2017;20(4):531–42.

Guidance on writing medical information in plain English from the Plain English campaign in the UK.

This document from the CDC lists frequently used terms in public health materials and their common, everyday alternatives in plain language sentences.

A checklist from the US NIH that you can use to review your patient information resource for plain language.

Plain language resources from the National Institutes for Health.

Provides a searchable database of medical terms with the plain language, non-jargon equivalents. For example, hypertension is defined and given an alternate term of high blood pressure.