“Impression: No significant or acute pelvis or left hip abnormality or significant interval change in appearance since 4/21/2014.”

Flesch reading ease: 25.8

– it’s redundant and rarely helpful to repeat the type of exam in the impression. For example, if the report header is Exam: Unenhanced CT brain, it’s more concise to conclude Normal study or Normal brain than “Normal unenhanced CT brain”.

-it’s not necessary (adds no information) to say “interval change” instead of just “change” when the prior date is given.

-saying “appearance” adds no information. Appearance is what we see on images. The task is to observe, describe and interpret the appearance.

rewrite: Impression: No significant or acute abnormality. No change from 4/21/14.

Flesch reading ease of the edited version is 55.8, meaning the rewrite is more than twice as easy to read as the original.