Health literacy and anticoagulation-related outcomes among patients taking warfarin

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 841-846

  Fang, Margaret C ^a,c   Machtinger, Edward L ^a   Wang, Frances ^b   Schillinger, Dean ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adherence; Anticoagulation; Health literacy; Knowledge

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WARFARIN;

EID: 33745775450     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00537.x     Document Type: Article

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