Analysis of the effects of translation (English-Spanish) on the readability of patient information leaflets

This paper focuses on the potential effects of translation from English into Spanish in the readability of patient information leaflets. It is based on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the elements involved in the degree of readability of a corpus of 150 patient information leaflets specifically selected for this purpose. The results obtained and the conclusions reached after the analysis may be used to determine whether the translation process has any impact on the degree of readability of translated texts against original ones and, if so, to which degree does it affect.