Health Literacy and Use of Outpatient Physician Services by Medicare Managed Care Enrollees

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 215-220

  Baker, David W ^a   Gazmararian, Julie A ^b   Williams, Mark V ^c   Scott, Tracy ^b   Parker, Ruth M ^c   Green, Diane ^b   Ren, Junling ^b   Peel, Jennifer ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Educational status; Emergency medicine; Literacy; Office visits

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; MANAGED CARE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OHIO; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642271991     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.21130.x     Document Type: Article

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