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SynthesisWorld journal of surgery2019

Health Literacy Among Surgical Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Mélissa Roy, Joseph P Corkum, David R Urbach, Christine B Novak, Herbert P von Schroeder, Steven J McCabe, Karen Okrainec

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Synthesis in World journal of surgery, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
5.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 76 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Health literacy of patients hospitalized for digestive surgeries.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2026
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  7. Addressing Low Health Literacy in Surgical Populations.Clinics in colon and rectal surgery · 2025
    Review
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  13. Health Literacy in Orthopedic Surgery: A Systematic Review.HSS journal : the musculoskeletal journal of Hospital for Special Surgery · 2023
    Review
  14. Health Literacy in Plastic Surgery: A Scoping Review.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mélissa RoyDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, The Rotman/Stewart Building, 149 College Street, 5th Floor, Suite 508, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada. melissa.roy@mail.utoronto.ca.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2084-7036
Joseph P CorkumDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
David R UrbachDivision of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Christine B NovakDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, The Rotman/Stewart Building, 149 College Street, 5th Floor, Suite 508, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada.
Herbert P von SchroederDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, The Rotman/Stewart Building, 149 College Street, 5th Floor, Suite 508, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada.
Steven J McCabeDivision of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, The Rotman/Stewart Building, 149 College Street, 5th Floor, Suite 508, Toronto, ON, M5T 1P5, Canada.
Karen OkrainecDivision of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
University of Toronto · CADalhousie University · CA

Funding

CIHR
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Health literacy is the extent to which patients are able to understand and act upon health information. This concept is important for surgeons as their patients have to comprehend the nature, risks and benefits of surgical procedures, adhere to perioperative instructions, and make complex care decisions about interventions. Our review aimed to determine the prevalence of limited health literacy of the surgical patient population. A search of MEDLINE and EMBASE was performed from inception until January 14th 2017 for experimental and observational studies reporting surgical patients' health literacy measurement. Overall pooled proportion of surgical patients with limited health literacy was calculated using a random-effects model and methodologic quality was assessed. A total of 40 studies representing 18,895 surgical patients were included in our quantitative synthesis. Pooled estimate of limited health literacy was 31.7% (95%CI 24.7-39.2%, I

Indexed as

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHealth LiteracySurgical Procedures, OperativeComprehensionDecision MakingHumansPatient Compliance

Identifiers

PMID30105637
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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.