Prevalence and demographic and clinical associations of health literacy in patients on maintenance hemodialysis

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1354-1360

  Green, Jamie A ^a   Mor, Maria K ^b   Shields, Anne Marie ^b   Sevick, Mary Ann ^a   Palevsky, Paul M ^c   Fine, Michael J ^a   Arnold, Robert M ^b   Weisbord, Steven D ^d  

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

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEROLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; VETERAN;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PENNSYLVANIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RENAL DIALYSIS; VETERANS;

EID: 79958205954     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.09761110     Document Type: Article

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