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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/clinicians-providers/iadapt/montori.pdf
September 29, 2013 - Project Aims
The main aims of this study are to:
1) Develop a literacy-sensitive depression
treatment … cluster-
randomized trial enrolling primary care
practices serving depressed patients with
low health literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/diabetesnetwork/diabnet6.html
October 01, 2014 - The Activation Assessment Tool was felt to be beyond the literacy level of clinic patients. … Considering the low literacy level when planning materials for Latinos (e.g., using simple drawings and
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/h.html
June 12, 2025 - Topics Browse A - Z
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Health Information Technology (HIT) Health Literacy Health
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/appd.html
March 01, 2017 - Every Patient’s Advocate
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Harvard School of Public Health, Health Literacy … Health Care for All
Health Literacy Now
Health Research and Educational Trust
Health Resources … Safety Center
Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
Maximus Center for Health Literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/greenwald-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Patient education, literacy, and empowerment and its impact on
medication reconciliation;
ii. … Addressing patient-centeredness and literacy. 4.1
2. … Improving the recognition, understanding of, and approaches to patients with language,
literacy, or … sensitive
and apply universal precautions (i.e., assuming that all patients have literacy
issues … Language barriers, low literacy, legal concerns, patient’s ownership of care,
perception of time
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2025-annual-report/person-centered.html
August 01, 2025 - particularly geared towards older adults, who face unique barriers to patient portals including low health literacy … topics important to school readiness (e.g., nutrition and physical activity) to introduce language and literacy … Initiatives and Resources In 2023 and 2024, AHRQ released the updated Health Literacy Universal Precautions … Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit AHRQ’s Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/patient-safety/resources/diagnostic-toolkit/14-diagnostic-safety-toolkit-references.pdf
November 24, 2020 - CAHPS Health Literacy Item Sets. Content last reviewed January 2018. … Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-
guidance/item-sets/literacy … patient-safety/reports/issue-briefs/state-of-science.html
https://www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/literacy … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
https://www.ahrq.gov/health-literacy/improve … articles/PMC8103734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5821327/
https://www.ahrq.gov/health-literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/literacy/suppl-interpreter-service-items-cg-survey30-adult.html
December 01, 2023 - assess interpreter services may also want to review and use supplemental items that ask about health literacy … Health Literacy .
Perceived Bias .
Communication Barriers .
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/kukafka-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Health literacy was assessed with the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (S-TOFHLA), … literacy had low numeracy). … Health literacy and health numeracy [panel presentation]. … Development of a brief test to measure
functional health literacy. … TOFHLA test of functional health literacy in adults.
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/2014chartbooks/womenhealth/wm-ref.html
September 01, 2015 - Strategies for improving low health literacy. Postgrad Med 2009 Sep;121(5):171-7. … Health literacy and 30-day postdischarge hospital utilization. … Health literacy: January 1990 through October 1999 [bibliography]. February 2000; p. vi.
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www.ahrq.gov/data/infographics/health-literacy.html
March 01, 2022 - Related Resources
Use the Teach-Back Method: Tool #5 , from the AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/hp/suppl-healthlit-items-hp-survey50-adult.html
April 01, 2020 - Supplemental Items for the CAHPS Health Plan Adult Survey 5.0: Health Literacy
Population version … items: English ( Word , 37 KB); Spanish ( Word , 41 KB, PDF , 184 KB)
Learn about the CAHPS Health Literacy … Health plans interested in items that assess health literacy may also want to review and use supplemental
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/medicaidreadmitguide/mcaidread_tool9_trans_care.docx
July 28, 2016 - insurance coverage, utilities, pending eviction
· Recent or repeated incarceration or detention
Language or Literacy … Issues
· Low literacy, low numeracy
· Low health literacy—diagnoses, medications, care plan
· Low or
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/clinical-conversations.html
April 01, 2022 - of Medicine for training clinicians and other clinical staff who interact with patients about health literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/reports/engage/gaps.html
March 01, 2017 - translators or other language support services within primary care settings, and barriers to health literacy … Few of the patient-focused tools catered to patients and families with lower or limited health literacy … there does not seem to be a consensus on what would be an appropriate way to test or assess the health literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-test-result-communication5.html
July 01, 2024 - patient populations for whom patient portals are less accessible, including people with low health literacy … Patient-centered design for portal users with low health literacy and/or limited English proficiency.
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/lessons-nursing-home-staff.html
April 01, 2022 - of Medicine for training clinicians and other clinical staff who interact with patients about health literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/prevention/resources/depression/depsumtab1.html
April 01, 2013 - Instrument
Items, n 2
Time Frame of Questions
Score Range
Usual Cut-Point 3
Literacy Level
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www.ahrq.gov/sdm/education-training/index.html
October 01, 2024 - Consent an Informed Choice: Training Modules for Health Care Leaders and Professionals —teach health literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-11/sarkar-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - data included
measures of patient age, gender, education, income, race/ethnicity, language, health literacy … Spanish,
and Cantonese, as these were the three languages available for the intervention), health literacy … Brief questions to identify patients with inadequate
health literacy. … The literacy divide: health literacy and the use of an
internet-based patient portal in an integrated … Hypoglycemia is more
common among type 2 diabetes patients with limited health literacy: the Diabetes