Different Measures, Different Outcomes? A Systematic Review of Performance-Based versus Self-Reported Measures of Health Literacy and Numeracy

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1538-1546

  Kiechle, Eric S ^a   Bailey, Stacy Cooper ^b   Hedlund, Laurie A ^c   Viera, Anthony J ^a,d,e   Sheridan, Stacey L ^a,d,e  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNC Hamner Institute for Drug Safety Sciences   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

health literacy; literacy; measurement; measures; numeracy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SCREENING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH NUMERACY; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE BASED MEASURE; PRESCRIPTION; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS DISEASE ACTIVITY INDEX; SELF REPORT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 84942499672     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-015-3288-4     Document Type: Article

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