Analysis finds patient letters from eye clinics often too difficult to read

Letters to patients from ophthalmology services--the highest volume outpatient specialty in UK healthcare-include too much complex language and medical terminology which patients are likely to find hard to understand, reveals an analysis of more than 4 million letters from one…

Letters to patients from ophthalmology services—the highest-volume outpatient specialty in U.K. health care—include too much complex language and medical terminology that patients are likely to find hard to understand, according to an analysis of more than 4 million letters from…