39: Thyroid Cancer Web Sites Confuse Patients with Dr. Rashika Bansal from St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center
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Dr. Rashika Bansal is a PGY-2 resident in Internal Medicine at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, NJ. Her major research has been with diabetes prevalence and awareness in rural India, with special interest in thyroid disease.
In this episode Dr. Bansal shares the research she presented at AACE 2017 and ENDO 2017, regarding the poor readability scores for thyroid cancer web sites.
The challenge for these web sites and health institutions is to translate thyroid education from complex to simple and easy to understand. Currently, many patients are not following with treatment, citing confusion after being exposed to the various thyroid cancer education resources.
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Thyroid Education Scores Low for Readability
Thyroid patient education materials not adequately targeted to patient reading level
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