Readability and Suitability of COPD Consumer Information

Table 4

Readability of patient medication information.

Inhaler	Flesch Reading Ease	Gunning Fog	Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level	Coleman-Liau Index	SMOG Index	Automated Readability Index	Linsear Write Formula
Advair Diskus	58.9	11.2	8.5	11	8.3	8.4	8
Airomir	44.8	14.2	12.5	11	12	12.5	15.4
Anoro Ellipta	54.1	11	9.6	10	9.6	8.7	10.6
Apo-Salvent CFC Free	48.8	14.1	12.2	10	10.7	12.4	15
Atrovent HFA	42.6	15.6	12.8	12	11.8	13.4	15.1
Breo Ellipta	55.9	11.8	10	10	9.5	10.1	11.8
Bricanyl Turbuhaler	44.3	13.5	11.8	13	10.8	12.3	12.9
Combivent Respimat	30.6	17.3	14.9	14	13.5	15.6	17.3
Duaklir Genuair	35.5	15.7	13.9	13	12.9	14.5	16.2
Foradil Aerolizer	46.4	13	10.8	12	10.2	10.5	11.1
Incruse Ellipta	58.2	10.7	8.9	10	8.6	8.4	8.7
Inspiolto Respimat	33.1	15.4	13.9	13	12.5	14.2	15.3
Novo-Salbutamol HFA	45.2	13.7	12.1	11	11	12.2	13.8
Onbrez Breezhaler	51.3	11.7	10.1	13	8.8	11	9.4
Salbutamol HFA	50	13.2	11.4	11	10.5	11.6	13.7
Seebri Breezhaler	49.1	12.5	11	12	9.1	11.9	11.6
Serevent Diskhaler Disk	58.7	10.7	8.5	11	8.4	8.7	8
Serevent Diskus	58.1	10.9	8.6	11	8.5	8.4	8.1
Spiriva	46.5	13.4	11.5	12	10.9	11.8	13.1
Spiriva Respimat	42.3	14.2	12.4	12	11.6	12.5	14.1
Striverdi Respimat	41.1	13.9	12.3	13	11.7	12.9	13.6
Symbicort	58.9	9.8	8.6	10	8.6	8.1	8.3
Tudorza Genuair	47.5	13.5	11	12	10.8	11	12.3
Ultibro Breezhaler	45.6	12.7	11.4	13	10.1	12.1	12.1
Ventolin Diskus	45.1	14.3	12.9	11	11.2	13.7	15.7
Ventolin HFA	51.4	13.2	11.3	10	10.5	11.5	13.7