The impact of low health literacy on the medical costs of Medicare managed care enrollees

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 371-377

  Howard, David H ^a,c   Gazmararian, Julie ^b   Parker, Ruth M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Cost analysis; Health expenditures; Health knowledge; Patient education

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 16244415880     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.01.010     Document Type: Article

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