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Assessing the readability of clinical documents in a document engineering environment

<17> This work forms part of a long-term relationship between Teesside University and the French National Health Authority, La Haute Autorité de Santé (HAS). HAS use a specialised document engineering environment, known as G-DEE, to author clinical guidelines. We discovered an association between the density of specific linguistic markers in these guidelines and overall readability. We created a plug-in for G-DEE that exploits this association. This plug-in has subsequently helped HAS project leaders and guideline authors to elaborate complex medical recommendations. ACM Document Engineering is the leading conference on document preparation and electronic publishing.