Short, subjective measures of numeracy and general health literacy in an adult emergency department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1148-1155

  McNaughton, Candace ^a   Wallston, Kenneth A ^b   Rothman, Russell L ^a   Marcovitz, David E ^b   Storrow, Alan B ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; AREA UNDER CURVE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE;

EID: 81755162033     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01210.x     Document Type: Article

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