Wilson J, Hogan L
Drug Intell Clin Pharm. 1983 Jan;17(1):54-5. doi: 10.1177/106002808301700116.
Using a word familiarity index, we studied pharmacy auxiliary labels and selected brief information sheets to determine the reading difficulty of these forms of written communication, which cannot be evaluated by traditional readability testing methods. Results of the study show that 11.2 percent of the 110 words selected from these information sources are above the eighth-grade reading level. The word familiarity index also identified multiple meanings of words and appears to be a valuable tool for evaluating written information that is not suitable for traditional readability testing.
我们使用词汇熟悉度指数研究了药品辅助标签和精选的简短信息单页，以确定这些书面交流形式的阅读难度，而传统可读性测试方法无法对其进行评估。研究结果表明，从这些信息来源中选取的110个单词里，有11.2%超出了八年级的阅读水平。词汇熟悉度指数还能识别单词的多种含义，并且似乎是评估不适用于传统可读性测试的书面信息的一个有价值的工具。
