Assess Patient Education Materials
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sent this bulletin at 11/27/2013 11:40 AM ESTNew AHRQ Tool: Choose More Understandable and Actionable Materials
Patient educational materials, such as brochures, medical instructions, and audiovisual aids, are often complex and lack clear information about what the patient is supposed to do.
AHRQ’s Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) and User’s Guide provides a systematic method to evaluate and compare the understandability and actionability of patient education materials.
By selecting health materials that score better on the PEMAT, you can be more confident that people of varying levels of health literacy will be able to process and explain key messages, and identify what they can do based on the information presented.
To access the PEMAT, go to: www.ahrq.gov/pemat/.
You can find additional tools for improving health literacy at AHRQ’s website, including:
AHRQ’s Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) and User’s Guide provides a systematic method to evaluate and compare the understandability and actionability of patient education materials.
By selecting health materials that score better on the PEMAT, you can be more confident that people of varying levels of health literacy will be able to process and explain key messages, and identify what they can do based on the information presented.
To access the PEMAT, go to: www.ahrq.gov/pemat/.
You can find additional tools for improving health literacy at AHRQ’s website, including:
- AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center
- Self-Management Support Video and Library
- Health Literacy Topics (choose For Professionals)
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