Background: Health literacy has been defined as the ability to obtain, process, and
understand the basic information needed to make appropriate health decisions. Half of …

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to describe the concept of health literacy, and to
assess health literacy levels in diabetic patients receiving care in primary care settings. Data …

Purpose: Difficulties in identifying and caring for patients with limited health literacy have
prompted interest in clinical screening to assess health literacy. Little agreement exists …

Background: Health literacy screening is often not performed in clinical settings. One
possible reason is the concern about the time involved in performing such assessments. Our …

Health literacy refers to the ability of a patient to obtain, communicate, process, and
understand basic information related to health and services. It is estimated that the majority …

The “Newest Vital Sign”(NVS) is a validated health literacy assessment tool typically
administered by clinicians. The objective of this study was to assess if the NVS could be self …

National priorities and recent federal initiatives have brought health literacy to the forefront in
providing safe accessible care. Having valid and reliable health literacy measures is a …

Background Given rapidly accumulating evidence that health literacy is correlated with
important health-related measures, assessing patients' health literacy level is of increasing …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate utility of the newest vital sign (NVS) which can be completed in
3min compared to the short version test of functional literacy in adults (S-TOFHLA) that takes …

Objectives Previous studies have shown that a single question may identify individuals with
inadequate health literacy. We evaluated and compared the performance of 3 health literacy …