Online Patient Education Materials for Pediatric Septic Arthritis Exceed Recommended Reading Levels: A Readability Analysis.

Cureus · 2026 · PMC12906335 · PMID 41694834

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Higher-ranked hospitals tended to have slightly higher Flesch-Kincaid scores (worse readability), but this trend did not reach statistical significance (ρ = -0.32; p = 0.31).

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