How does your leaflet actually read?
Paste a procedure information leaflet. The instruments read it live — reading ease, sentence mix, where risk first appears — then the real pipeline takes over in miniature: research, a critic, a reading panel, and a re-drafted sample. Advisory, free, and nothing you paste is stored.
Your leaflet
Paste (or upload) the text of a single procedure leaflet you use today — up to about 2,000 words. Scored in your browser — nothing is stored.
Paste, or upload a .txt or a text-based PDF — it’s read on your device, never uploaded. Examples are illustrative, not real leaflets.
Reading ease
awaiting your leafletUK reading level
Target marker at 40 (≈ Year 11)
Sentence mix
- Easy-read practice keeps sentences under 15 words.
Where risk first appears
The document map lights up when a leaflet is loaded.
- SMOG grade
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- Words
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- Sentences
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Advisory, not a verdict: readability formulas read words, not layout or diagrams. They are a first, honest look at how your material reads.
Run it through the pipeline
Every Patient Compass pathway is produced by a governed pipeline — research, a critic, a reading panel, then drafting. Your leaflet gets the miniature version, live: Berenice finds what current guidance emphasises, Tatiana attacks the text as an editor, the Aspasia panel reads it in character, and the run closes with a few sentences re-drafted dual-track. Free — and nothing you paste is stored.
The same information, built to be read
Every Patient Compass pathway carries the team’s approved content in two tracks — standard and easy read — and the patient chooses how they read. An illustrative demonstration:
Standard
After the operation you will have a dressing over the wound. Some swelling and bruising is normal in the first week and usually settles on its own. Keep the area clean and dry for the first 48 hours; after that you can shower as normal. Contact the team if you notice increasing pain, spreading redness, or discharge from the wound.
Easy read
What this means for you
- You will have a dressing on your wound.
- Some swelling is normal. It will settle.
- Keep the wound dry for 2 days.
- After 2 days, you can shower.
- Call us if the wound hurts more, looks red, or leaks.
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How this works — and what it isn’t
- The instruments use the standard public readability formulas (Flesch Reading Ease, SMOG) plus simple structural reads, computed in your browser. Formulas read words, not layout — treat the numbers as a first look, not a verdict.
- The pipeline stages are generated by AI: a research pass that cites only sources it actually found, an editorial critique, reader personas reacting in character, and a short dual-track sample drafted from your own text with no new clinical content. All of it is advisory and illustrative — not a compliance assessment, not a clinical review, and not certification of any kind.
- Your leaflet text is processed transiently to produce the read and is never stored. Your name and email are used to respond to you and are kept for follow-up — no account, no third-party tracking.
- This is a tool for the clinicians who write patient information — it is not patient advice.
Related reading: the Accessible Information Standard in surgical patient information and the patient-information governance checklist.