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  1. User-Centered Quality Report (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/news-and-events/podcasts/user-centered-quality-reports-mcgee-20120301-transcript.pdf
    June 02, 2025 - Jeanne is a sociologist with expertise in health literacy, the measurement and reporting of health care … Another big difference between developers and users is in literacy skills and navigation experience … Presumably you're trying to reach an audience that has a broad range of literacy skills and experience

  2. Final Progress Report: Enhanced Patient Safety Intervention to Optimize Medical (EPITOME) (pdf file)

    www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/sirio-report.pdf
    January 01, 2024 - Inadequate health literacy has a significant impact on medication adherence, and it is essential to … target medication education programming to the appropriate patient literacy level. … tailored to individual patient needs, including but not limited to pre-existing knowledge and health literacy

  3. 2006 Update on Consumers' Views of Patient Safety and Quality Information.  | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/2006-update-consumers-views-patient-safety-and-quality-information
    July 28, 2013 - September 20, 2006 The Health Literacy of America's Adults: Results from the 2003 National … Assessment of Adult Literacy. 

  4. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/unequal-treatment-confronting-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-health-care
    June 15, 2011 - August 15, 2012 Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion. … September 12, 2018 Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health: Workshop Summary

  5. Ranking of the Rate of State Medical Boards’ Serious Disciplinary Actions, 2019-2021. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ranking-rate-state-medical-boards-serious-disciplinary-actions-2019-2021
    October 05, 2016 - October 5, 2016 Implications of Health Literacy for Public Health: Workshop Summary. … December 17, 2014 Health Literacy: Past, Present, and Future: Workshop Summary.

  6. Rapid Evidence Product Patient Navigation Models For Lung Cancer (pdf file)

    effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/patient-navigation-model-lung-cancer-rapid.pdf
    December 01, 2018 - lung cancer outcomes vary by geographic location (rural, suburban, urban), socioeconomic status, literacy … lung cancer outcomes vary by geographic location (rural, suburban, urban), socioeconomic status, literacy … lung cancer outcomes vary by geographic location (rural, suburban, urban), socioeconomic status, literacy … lung cancer outcomes for specific patient subgroups of geographic location, socioeconomic status, literacy … addressed lung cancer outcomes by patient subgroups of geographic location, socioeconomic status, literacy

  7. Archived: Evidence Summary: Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children Age 5 and Younger: Screening | United States Preventive Services Taskforce

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/document/evidence-summary30/speech-and-language-delay-and-disorders-in-children-age-5-and-younger-screening-july-2015
    July 07, 2015 - reported significantly greater improvements in parental stress. 68 Two trials measuring emergent literacy … Pre-literacy skills of subgroups of children with speech sound disorders. … What influences literacy outcome in children with speech sound disorder? … Early speech- and language-impaired children: linguistic, literacy, and social outcomes. … Modeling developmental language difficulties from school entry into adulthood: literacy, mental health

  8. Implementation Outcomes of a Health Information Technology Program For Vulnerable Diabetes Patients - 2012 | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/implementation-outcomes-health-it-program-vulnerable-diabetes-patients/annual-summary/2012
    January 01, 2012 - Target Population:  Adults, Chronic Care*, Diabetes, Elderly*, Low Literacy, Low-SES/Low Income*, Medicaid

  9. Ambulatory Care Compact to Organize Risk and Decisionmaking (ACCORD) - 2011 | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/ambulatory-care-compact-organize-risk-and-decisionmaking-accord/annual-summary/2011
    January 01, 2011 - consumer health information, the potential limited utility of the system for patients with low computer literacy

  10. Harnessing Health IT for Self-Management Support and Medication Activation in a Medicaid Health Plan - 2010 | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/harnessing-health-information-technology-self-management-support-and-medication/annual-summary/2010
    January 01, 2010 - December 2010 Target Population: Adults, Diabetes, Elderly * , Low Literacy

  11. A Rural Health Information Technology Cooperative to Promote Clinical Improvement - 2008 | Digital Healthcare Research

    digital.ahrq.gov/ahrq-funded-projects/rural-health-information-technology-cooperative-promote-clinical-improvement/annual-summary/2008
    January 01, 2008 - attitudes toward best practice guidelines, use of the computer to perform professional tasks, and computer literacy

  12. Build Patient Understanding of Setbacks | The Academy

    integrationacademy.ahrq.gov/products/playbooks/behavioral-health-and-primary-care/implementing-plan/build-patient-understanding-setbacks-and-how-deal-them
    June 01, 2022 - Be sure to consider the patient’s unique beliefs, learning preferences, literacy, and cultural factors

  13. Evidence Gaps Research Taxonomy Table: Research Gaps for Screening for Speech and Language Delay and Disorders in Children (pdf file)

    www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/home/getfilebytoken/T6auAz-64DpreTqycmvSJr
    January 01, 2001 - KQ5: Measures of academic skills or achievement (e.g., early literacy skills), parental/caregiver

  14. Trust and Patient-Centeredness Workgroup | CDSiC

    cdsic.ahrq.gov/cdsic/cdsic-stakeholder-community-outreach-center/trust-patient-centeredness
    January 02, 2025 - action plan for using social determinants of health (SDOH) factors (e.g., education, income, health literacy

  15. Transforming service delivery to promote quality of care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

    www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/finalsummary/finalsummary3.html
    September 01, 2015 - SBHCs by hiring youth engagement specialists who can assist in hosting workshops for youth and health literacy

  16. Computer Assisted Medication and Patient Information Interface (CAMPII) - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs018236-ziemer-final-report-2012.pdf
    January 01, 2012 - limitations for diabetes population with high prevalence of co-morbidity poly-pharmacy, and low health literacy … Design requirements had to address health and computer literacy as well as vision challenges. … health literacy … Voice-over instructions and reading of options minimize literacy requirements. … Design and Development of a Computer-assisted Self-interviewing Kiosk for Low-literacy Patients

  17. Psn-Pdf (pdf file)

    psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33770/psn-pdf
    August 01, 2014 - RW: So speaking of tailoring, you've done a lot of work in health literacy. … If you create materials and interventions that are appropriate for low health literacy patients, are … they inappropriate for people of high health literacy? … Then she asked patients of all literacy levels, "Which advance directive do you prefer?" … The vast majority preferred the limited health literacy version.

  18. Am I (un)safe here? Chemotherapy patients' perspectives towards engaging in their safety. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/am-i-unsafe-here-chemotherapy-patients-perspectives-towards-engaging-their-safety
    February 01, 2011 - December 21, 2014 Health literacy and quality: focus on chronic illness care and patient … March 22, 2009 Perspective The Role of Health Literacy

  19. Medication reconciliation and hypertension control. | PSNet

    psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medication-reconciliation-and-hypertension-control
    December 19, 2017 - December 21, 2017 Perspective The Role of Health Literacy … December 14, 2016 Liquid medication dosing errors by Hispanic parents: role of health literacy

  20. Improving Outpatient Safety of Older Adults through Electronic Patient Portals - Final Report (pdf file)

    digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/citation/r21hs024071-lindquist-final-report-2018.pdf
    January 01, 2018 - Health Literacy: Initially we used the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults (STOFHLA) … of health literacy: inadequate (score 0-16), marginal (score 17-22) and adequate (23-36) health literacy … Ultimately we did not use or analyze health literacy due to issues with different instruments being … We were also unable to analyze health literacy as a covariate due to issues with different instruments … We did not use health literacy due to issues with different instruments being used, missing data, and
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