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Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy.
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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.About:
This article is published in Patient Education and Counseling.The article was published on 1999-09-01. It has received 1457 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Subjective Numeracy Scale & Numeracy.read more
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Health literacy : a prescription to end confusion
TL;DR: Health Literacy: Prescription to End Confusion examines the body of knowledge that applies to the field of health literacy, and recommends actions to promote a health literate society.
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Quick assessment of literacy in primary care: the newest vital sign.
Barry D. Weiss,Mary Z. Mays,William Martz,Kelley Merriam Castro,Darren A. DeWalt,Michael Pignone,Joy Mockbee,Frank A. Hale +7 more
TL;DR: NVS, the Newest Vital Sign, is suitable for use as a quick screening test for limited literacy in primary health care settings and correlates with the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults.
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Literacy and health outcomes
TL;DR: Low literacy is associated with several adverse health outcomes and future research, using more rigorous methods, will better define these relationships and guide developers of new interventions.
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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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Brief questions to identify patients with inadequate health literacy
TL;DR: Three questions were each effective screening tests for inadequate health literacy in this population, and three questions were weaker for identifying patients with marginal health literacy.
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Cloze procedure: a new tool for measuring readability
TL;DR: This is the first comprehensive statement of a research method and its theory and findings from three pilot studies and two experiments in which “cloze procedure” results are compared with those of two readability formulas.
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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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Rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine: a shortened screening instrument.
Terry C. Davis,Long Sw,Robert H. Jackson,Mayeaux Ej,George Rb,Peggy W. Murphy,Michael A. Crouch +6 more
TL;DR: The REALM provides an estimate of patient reading ability, displays excellent concurrent validity with standardized reading tests, and is a practical instrument for busy primary care settings.
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Adult literacy in America : a first look at the results of the National Adult Literacy Survey
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Inadequate functional health literacy among patients at two public hospitals.
Mark V. Williams,Ruth M. Parker,David W. Baker,Nina S. Parikh,Kathryn Pitkin,Wendy C. Coates,Joanne R. Nurss +6 more
TL;DR: Many patients at the authors' institutions cannot perform the basic reading tasks required to function in the health care environment, and inadequate health literacy may be an important barrier to patients' understanding of their diagnoses and treatments, and to receiving high-quality care.