Health Literacy and Awareness of Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Reading, Stephanie R ^a   Go, Alan S ^b   Fang, Margaret C ^c   Singer, Daniel E ^d   Liu, In Lu Amy ^a   Black, Mary Helen ^a   Udaltsova, Natalia ^b   Reynolds, Kristi ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Awareness; Health literacy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AWARENESS; CALIFORNIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH LITERACY; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIODEMOGRAPHICS; VERY ELDERLY; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPREHENSION; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; AWARENESS; CALIFORNIA; COMPREHENSION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH LITERACY; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85028396418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.005128     Document Type: Article

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