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Implementation of a Routine Health Literacy Assessment at an Academic Medical Center.
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- Development of Machine Learning Algorithms for Identifying Patients With Limited Health Literacy.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025Article
- Fear of Cataract Surgery and Vision Loss: The Effects of Health Literacy and Patient Comprehension at an Academic Hospital-Based Eye Clinic.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Article
- Assessment Tools for Measuring Health Literacy and Digital Health Literacy in a Hospital Setting: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Testing a single item screener to support family doctors in identifying patients with limited health literacy: convergent validity of the SILS and the HLS-EU-Q16.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Available tools to evaluate digital health literacy and engagement with eHealth resources: A scoping review.Heliyon · 2022Article
- Understanding the Current Landscape of Health Literacy Interventions within Health Systems.Perspectives in health information managemen · 2022Article
- Abbreviated versions of the shortened assessment of health literacy for adult emergency department patients: Derivation and testing.Cogent public health · 2022Article
- A Visualized and Scientometric Analysis of Health Literacy Research.Frontiers in public health · 2021Review
- Implementation context for addressing social needs in a learning health system: a qualitative study.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2021Article
- Health Literacy in An Otolaryngology Patient Population.Journal of otolaryngology - head & neck surgery = Le Journal d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico-facialeArticle
- Health Literacy in Patients' Clinical Records of Hospital Settings: A Systematic Review.SAGE open nursingReview
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Abstract
Limited health literacy is a common but often unrecognized problem associated with poor health outcomes. Well-validated screening tools are available to identify and provide the opportunity to intervene for at-risk patients in a resource-efficient manner. This is a multimethod study describing the implementation of a hospital-wide routine health literacy assessment at an academic medical center initiated by nurses in April 2014 and applied to all adult inpatients. Results were documented in the electronic health record, which then generated care plans and alerts for patients who screened positive. A nursing survey showed good ease of use and adequate patient acceptance of the screening process. Six months after hospital-wide implementation, retrospective chart abstraction of 1,455 patients showed that 84% were screened. We conclude that a routine health literacy assessment can be feasibly and successfully implemented into the nursing workflow and electronic health record of a major academic medical center.
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