Language, literacy, and characterization of stroke among patients taking warfarin for stroke prevention: Implications for health communication

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 403-410

  Fang, Margaret C ^a   Panguluri, Praveen ^b   Machtinger, Edward L ^a   Schillinger, Dean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Communication; Disparities; Health literacy; Knowledge; Language barriers; Stroke

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENGLISH SPEAKING; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL HEALTH PATTERNS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PHYSICIAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; READING; SAMPLE; SHORT FORM 12; SPANISH SPEAKING; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH DISPARITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; COMMUNICATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; WARFARIN;

EID: 66149130650     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.12.009     Document Type: Article

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