Meera Viswanathan

TL;DR: Differences in health literacy level were consistently associated with increased hospitalizations, greater emergency care use, lower use of mammography, lower receipt of influenza vaccine, poorer ability to demonstrate taking medications appropriately, poorer able to interpret labels and health messages, and, among seniors, poorer overall health status and higher mortality.

TL;DR: The EPC paired trained abstractors with a senior reviewer, who used an analytic framework to guide development of abstraction tables, and used the same framework to rate the quality of both the primary research and primary community-based participation elements.

TL;DR: Evidence is limited on whether these approaches are broadly applicable or affect longterm medication adherence and health outcomes and clinical and methodological heterogeneity hindered quantitative data pooling.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the comparative effectiveness of patient, provider, systems, and policy interventions to improve medication adherence for chronic conditions and found evidence that reduced out-of-control medication usage.

TL;DR: To understand fully the impact of gestational weight gain on short- and long-term outcomes for women and their offspring will require that researchers use consistent definitions of weight gain during pregnancy, improve study designs and statistical models, and conduct studies with longer followup.