Correlates of health literacy in patients with chronic heart failure

Gerontologist

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 669-676

  Morrow, Dan ^a   Clark, Dan ^b,c,d   Tu, Wanzhu ^b,c,d   Wu, Jingwei ^e   Weiner, Michael ^b,c,d   Steinley, Douglas ^f   Murray, Michael D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AGING RESEARCH   (United States)

^e University School of Medicine   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive ability; Health communication; Health literacy; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHARMACIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TEST OF FUNCTIONAL HEALTH LITERACY IN ADULTS; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 33750413368     PISSN: 00169013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geront/46.5.669     Document Type: Article

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