Group Health Plain Language Initiative Receives National Recognition

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May 11, 2010

The Group Health Cooperative Plain Language Network received a ClearMark award and an honorable mention for its work in simplifying language on patient materials. The award, from theCenter for Plain Language, was for the "Informed Consent for Surgery" form, which a working group from the Network reduced from a reading level of grade 15 to grade 6.

For more information on the Plain Language initiative, which was begun as a Group Health Research Institute program in 2005, see theGroup Health Research Institute Newsroom.

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