The relationship between literacy and multimorbidity in a primary care setting

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hudon, Catherine ^a,b   Fortin, Martin ^a,b   Poitras, Marie Eve ^b   Almirall, José ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b Services Sociaux de Chicoutimi   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; RISK FACTORS; SICKNESS IMPACT PROFILE;

EID: 84862186762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-33     Document Type: Article

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