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Dean Schillinger
Researcher at University of California, San Francisco
Publications - 319
Citations - 20708
Dean Schillinger is an academic researcher from University of California, San Francisco. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health literacy & Health care. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 300 publications receiving 18196 citations. Previous affiliations of Dean Schillinger include Kaiser Permanente & Columbia University.
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Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes.
Dean Schillinger,Kevin Grumbach,John D. Piette,Frances Wang,Dennis Osmond,Carolyn Daher,Jorge Palacios,Gabriela Diaz Sullivan,Andrew B. Bindman +8 more
TL;DR: Inadequate health literacy may contribute to the disproportionate burden of diabetes-related problems among disadvantaged populations and efforts should focus on developing and evaluating interventions to improve diabetes outcomes among patients with inadequate health literacy.
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Closing the Loop: Physician Communication With Diabetic Patients Who Have Low Health Literacy
Dean Schillinger,John D. Piette,Kevin Grumbach,Frances Wang,Clifford Wilson,Carolyn Daher,Krishelle Leong-Grotz,Cesar M. Castro,Andrew B. Bindman +8 more
TL;DR: The extent to which primary care physicians working in a public hospital assess patient recall and comprehension of new concepts during outpatient encounters was measured and the association between physicians' application of this interactive communication strategy and patients' glycemic control was examined.
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Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy?
TL;DR: Self-efficacy was associated with self-management behaviors in this vulnerable population, across both race/ethnicity and health literacy levels, and the magnitude of the associations suggests that, among diverse populations, further study of the determinants of and barriers to self- management is warranted.
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Functional health literacy and the quality of physician-patient communication among diabetes patients.
TL;DR: Poor FHL appears to be a marker for oral communication problems, particularly in the technical, explanatory domains of clinician-patient dialogue, in patients with poor functional health literacy.
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Limited Literacy and Mortality in the Elderly: The Health, Aging, and Body Composition Study
Rebecca L. Sudore,Kristine Yaffe,Suzanne Satterfield,Tamara B. Harris,Kala M. Mehta,Eleanor M. Simonsick,Anne B. Newman,Caterina Rosano,Ronica N. Rooks,Susan M. Rubin,Hilsa N. Ayonayon,Dean Schillinger +11 more
TL;DR: Limited literacy is independently associated with a nearly 2-fold increase in mortality in the elderly, given the growth of the aging population and the prevalence of chronic diseases.