Most web-based colon-screening information is lacking: study

By Kathryn Doyle NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When researchers evaluated a dozen websites meant to inform patients about colon cancer screening, most were written at too high a reading level and lacked important risk and benefit information. Researchers have known for at least 20 years that many materials written for patients, not just those about colonoscopy, are not up to snuff, according to Terry C. Davis. Davis, a professor at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, was not involved in the new report but has been studying health literacy and the quality of patient information for more than a decade. "Health information is written at too high a level and it's not user friendly," Davis told Reuters Health.



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