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Mark V. Williams
Researcher at University of Kentucky
Publications - 232
Citations - 32253
Mark V. Williams is an academic researcher from University of Kentucky. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health care & Hospital medicine. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 213 publications receiving 29541 citations. Previous affiliations of Mark V. Williams include Northwestern University & UK HealthCare.
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Rehospitalizations among Patients in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program
TL;DR: Rehospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries are prevalent and costly and about 10% of rehospitalizations were likely to have been planned.
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The test of functional health literacy in adults: a new instrument for measuring patients' literacy skills.
TL;DR: The Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) as mentioned in this paper was developed using actual hospital materials and consists of a 50-item reading comprehension and 17-item numerical ability test.
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Deficits in communication and information transfer between hospital-based and primary care physicians: implications for patient safety and continuity of care.
Sunil Kripalani,Frank Lefevre,Christopher O. Phillips,Mark V. Williams,Preetha Basaviah,David W. Baker +5 more
TL;DR: Interventions such as computer-generated summaries and standardized formats may facilitate more timely transfer of pertinent patient information to primary care physicians and make discharge summaries more consistently available during follow-up care.
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Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy.
TL;DR: The development of an abbreviated version of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA) to measure patients' ability to read and understand health-related materials that can be used by health educators to identify individuals who require special assistance to achieve learning goals is described.
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Relationship of Functional Health Literacy to Patients' Knowledge of Their Chronic Disease A Study of Patients With Hypertension and Diabetes
TL;DR: Inadequate functional health literacy poses a major barrier to educating patients with chronic diseases, and current efforts to overcome this appear unsuccessful.