American Academy of Family Physicians patient education materials: can patients read them?
Our results support and extend the findings of other readability studies across many medical specialties, all of which find that patient education materials are written at a difficulty level that is too high. The AAFP and individual family physicians should strive to improve communication with their patients by providing educational materials that are written at an appropriate reading level.
The authors' results show that there is a marked influence of local anesthetics not only on the quantity but also on the quality of viable preadipocytes as determined by their ability to differentiate into mature adipocytes. Therefore, these results should be considered in the context of autologous fat transfer and soft-tissue engineering.