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Table 2 Gunning’s Fog Index (FOG) and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) mean scores in the PICDs in the Dutch, Danish, and Norwegian studies

From: Readability of patient information and consent documents in rheumatological studies

 

Number of values

Mean (min-max)

Std. Deviation

FOG-NL

14

12.7 (9.0–17.6)

2.6

FOG-DK

14

15.0 (11.0–18.7)

2.5

FOG-NO

20

14.5 (9.8–19.0)

2.4

SMOG-NL

7

13.3 (12.0–15.0)

1.0

SMOG-DK

7

14.9 (13.0–17.0)

1.4

SMOG-NO

10

14.3 (13.0–15.0)

0.7

FOG-All

48

14.2 (9.0–19.0)

2.6

SMOG-All

24

14.2 (12.0–17.0)

1.1

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