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www.ahrq.gov/opioids/implementing-what-works/compendium.html
November 01, 2024 - Integrate Equity - Ensure tools and resources are available in language and literacy level
Ensure that … tools and educational resources used in making decisions are available in the appropriate language and literacy … back” technique is not specific to older adults or opioids management, it is an evidence-based health literacy … Equity - Communication techniques
Communication techniques must consider various levels of health literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/ambulatory/index.html
June 01, 2025 - Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit, 2nd Edition can help primary care practices reduce the … healthcare, increase patient understanding of health information, and enhance support for patients of all 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/topics/h.html
June 12, 2025 - Topics Browse A - Z
H
Health Information Technology (HIT) Health Literacy Health
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201515.html
January 01, 2018 - track of health- and wellness-related information, according to Jennifer Pearce, M.P.A., SCIC health literacy … "From a health literacy perspective, an EHR is only as good as the access people have to computers and
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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/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/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/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
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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/sops/surveys/community-pharmacy/pharmacy-resources.pdf
May 01, 2023 - pharmacy staff members can
use to improve communication with patients who may have limited health literacy … /index.html
AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center provides pharmacists with recently released health … literacy tools, curricular modules for pharmacy faculty, and resources for pharmacists interested
in … understanding more about health literacy.
2. … AHRQ Pharmacy Health Literacy Center
2. How To Start an MTM Practice
3.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/gurwitz2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Literacy and misunderstanding prescription drug labels. … AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit. In:
Services USDoHAH, ed. Second Edition. … Closing the loop: physician communication with diabetic
patients who have low health literacy. … The role of health literacy in patient-physician
communication. … Health literacy and patient safety: Help patients understand. 2010;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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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/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/sites/default/files/2024-01/jack-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - We also piloted two instruments that are both well validated
to assess health literacy. … The first is the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM),
and the second is the Test of … Functional Health Literacy in Adults (TOFHLA). … not adjusted according
to patient’s level of literacy/health literacy
Patient education about disease … No discharge plan given to patient
Patient not told about pending lab/tests
Literacy level of patient
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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/cahps/surveys-guidance/item-sets/literacy/suppl-interpreter-service-items-hp-survey50-adult.html
April 01, 2020 - Related topic: Health Literacy . … assess interpreter services may also want to review and use supplemental items that ask about health literacy
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www.ahrq.gov/topics/racial-ethnic-minorities.html
March 23, 2023 - healthcare-related risk factors as provider biases, poor provider-patient communication, lower levels of health literacy