Brief report: Screening items to identify patients with limited health literacy skills

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 874-877

  Wallace, Lorraine S ^a   Rogers, Edwin S ^a   Roskos, Steven E ^a   Holiday, David B ^b   Weiss, Barry D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Literacy; Screening

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 33745788368     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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