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BackgroundExisting health literacy assessments developed for research purposes have constraints that limit their utility for clinical practice, including time requirements and administration protocols. The Brief Health Literacy Screen (BHLS) consists of 3 self-administered Single-Item Literacy Screener (SILS) questions and obviates these clinical barriers. We assessed whether the addition of SILS items or the BHLS to patient demographics readily available in ambulatory clinical settings reaching underserved patients improves the ability to identify limited health literacy.MethodsWe analyzed data from 2 cross-sectional convenience samples of patients from an urban academic emergency department (n = 425) and a primary care clinic (n = 486) in...
PURPOSE Limited health literacy is increasingly recognized as a barrier to receiv-ing adequate healt...
BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is defined as necessary competencies to make well-informed decision...
Low literacy is a pervasive and underrecognized problem in health care. Approximately 21 % of Americ...
Health literacy has been defi ned as the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic informatio...
Abstract Background Reading skills are important for accessing health information, using health care...
Health literacy, the capacity of an individual to obtain and comprehend basic health information or ...
Abstract Background Low health literacy (HL) is associated with reduced disease self-management skil...
Health literacy is the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic information needed to make a...
ObjectivesTo evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of five health literacy screening instruments in emerg...
Despite advances in medical treatment, patients continue to experience poor health outcomes due to l...
Research conducted over the past 15 years has begun to unmask the previously hidden issue of illiter...
Background Health literacy (HL) has been recognized as an important public health issue in other dev...
The expectation of greater individual responsibility for health promotion practices and decision mak...
Levels of health literacy have been shown to be indicators of patients’ future health outcomes. Low ...
PURPOSE Current health literacy screening instruments for health care settings are either too long f...
PURPOSE Limited health literacy is increasingly recognized as a barrier to receiv-ing adequate healt...
BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is defined as necessary competencies to make well-informed decision...
Low literacy is a pervasive and underrecognized problem in health care. Approximately 21 % of Americ...
Health literacy has been defi ned as the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic informatio...
Abstract Background Reading skills are important for accessing health information, using health care...
Health literacy, the capacity of an individual to obtain and comprehend basic health information or ...
Abstract Background Low health literacy (HL) is associated with reduced disease self-management skil...
Health literacy is the ability to obtain, process, and understand basic information needed to make a...
ObjectivesTo evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of five health literacy screening instruments in emerg...
Despite advances in medical treatment, patients continue to experience poor health outcomes due to l...
Research conducted over the past 15 years has begun to unmask the previously hidden issue of illiter...
Background Health literacy (HL) has been recognized as an important public health issue in other dev...
The expectation of greater individual responsibility for health promotion practices and decision mak...
Levels of health literacy have been shown to be indicators of patients’ future health outcomes. Low ...
PURPOSE Current health literacy screening instruments for health care settings are either too long f...
PURPOSE Limited health literacy is increasingly recognized as a barrier to receiv-ing adequate healt...
BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is defined as necessary competencies to make well-informed decision...
Low literacy is a pervasive and underrecognized problem in health care. Approximately 21 % of Americ...
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