Health literacy predicts the discrepancy between patient and provider global assessments of rheumatoid arthritis activity at a public urban rheumatology clinic

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 961-966

  Hirsh, Joel M ^a   Boyle, Dennis J ^a,b   Collier, David H ^a,b   Oxenfeld, Abbey J ^a   Caplan, Liron ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DENVER HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Education status; Literacy; Patient outcome assessment; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY SCORE 28; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDIMENSIONAL HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STUDENT T TEST; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77951849883     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.090964     Document Type: Article

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