Michael K. Paasche-Orlow

TL;DR: This trial demonstrated that a nurse discharge advocate and clinical pharmacist working together to coordinate hospital discharge, educate patients, and reconcile medications led to fewer follow-up emergency visits and rehospitalizations than usual care alone.

TL;DR: In this article, a randomized controlled trial was conducted to evaluate the clinical effect of implementing RED among patients admitted to a general medical service and found that a nurse discharge advocate and clinical pharmacist working together to coordinate hospital discharge, educate patients, and reconcile medications led to fewer follow-up emergency visits and rehospitalizations than usual care alone.

TL;DR: This systematic review exhibits that limited health literacy, as depicted in the medical literature, is prevalent and is consistently associated with education, ethnicity, and age.

TL;DR: An evidence-based review of plausible causal pathways that could best explain well-established associations between limited health literacy and health outcomes is provided.

TL;DR: It is hypothesized that text provided by IRBs in informed-consent forms falls short of the IRBs' own readability standards and that readability is influenced by the level of research activity, local literacy rates, and federal oversight.