Health literacy assessment and patient satisfaction in surgical practice

Surgery (United States)

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 374-383

  Komenaka, Ian K ^a,b   Nodora, Jesse N ^c   Machado, Lorenzo ^a   Hsu, Chiu Hsieh ^b,d   Klemens, Anne E ^a   Martinez, Maria Elena ^c   Bouton, Marcia E ^a   Wilhelmson, Krista L ^a   Weiss, Barry D ^e  

^a MARICOPA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARIZONA; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH LITERACY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY TAKING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION;

EID: 84894036047     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: 15327361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2013.10.011     Document Type: Article

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