Is low health literacy associated with increased emergency department utilization and recidivism?

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1109-1115

  Griffey, Richard T ^a   Kennedy, Sarah K ^b   McGownan, Lucy ^a   Goodman, Melody ^a   Kaphingst, Kimberly A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONVENIENCE SAMPLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECIDIVISM; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT TEST OF FUNCTIONAL HEALTH LITERACY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84908119830     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12476     Document Type: Article

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