2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00532.x
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Brief Report: screening items to identify patients with limited health literacy skills

Abstract: BACKGROUND: Patients with limited literacy skills are routinely encountered in clinical practice, but they are not always identified by clinicians. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate 3 candidate questions to determine their accuracy in identifying patients with limited or marginal health literacy skills. METHODS: We studied 305 English‐speaking adults attending a university‐based primary care clinic. Demographic items, health literacy screening questions, and the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM) wer… Show more

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“…Equally it cannot be assumed that patients with difficulties understanding fail to seek clarification. For this reason clinicians should identify patients who may struggle, using validated screening tools (Appendix 2) [18,75,78,103]. Despite this clinicians may fail to identify patients with low health literacy and should consider producing ''health-literate'' PROMs written at or below the level of an 11-year-old subject [21,40,106].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Equally it cannot be assumed that patients with difficulties understanding fail to seek clarification. For this reason clinicians should identify patients who may struggle, using validated screening tools (Appendix 2) [18,75,78,103]. Despite this clinicians may fail to identify patients with low health literacy and should consider producing ''health-literate'' PROMs written at or below the level of an 11-year-old subject [21,40,106].…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The first two scores represent composite scores, whereas travel time is a score for that single factor, and all scores are from factor analyses. Health literacy score was derived using the scale reported by Wallace et al (28). Proportions were reported for categorical variables, means (SDs) were reported for normally distributed numerical variables, and medians (interquartile ranges) were reported for non-normally distributed numerical variables.…”
Section: Survey Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A single item, asking "How confident are you filling out medical forms by yourself? ", from the Wallace health literacy assessment was used to measure health literacy status [29]. Cumulative illness rating scale geriatrics (CIRS-G) was used to assess comorbidity and illness severity [30].…”
Section: Setting and Participantsmentioning
confidence: 99%