Background: Emergency department visits and rehospitalization are common after hospital
discharge. Objective: To test the effects of an intervention designed to minimize hospital …

… The Paasche-Orlow and Wolf framework highlights both promising areas for intervention …
In this study, we sought to validate one third of the Paasche-Orlow and Wolf framework. We …

Background: Effective prevention against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is currently limited to …

Objective: To systematically review US studies examining the prevalence of limited health
literacy and to synthesize these findings by evaluating demographic associations in pooled …

Low health literacy is associated with higher mortality, higher rates of hospitalization, and
poor self-management skills for chronic disease. Early, unplanned hospital reutilization after …

Limited health literacy is a pervasive and independent risk factor for poor health outcomes.
Despite decades of reports exhibiting that the healthcare system is overly complex, …

Limited health literacy has been linked to worse health outcomes for a range of medical
conditions. In addition, limited health literacy is more prevalent among specific racial and ethnic …

Objective : To provide an evidence-based review of plausible causal pathways that could best
explain well-established associations between limited health literacy and health outcomes…

Background Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential
research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating …

This article aimed to provide a descriptive review of the psychometric properties and
conceptual dimensions of published health literacy measurement tools. PsycINFO and PubMed …