Patients who can't read. Implications for the health care system.

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.

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.

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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5. Effect of patient education on medication adherence of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized controlled trial.Patient preference and adherence · 2019
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6. Medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: why do patients not take what we prescribe?Rheumatology international · 2016
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7. Readability of patient discharge instructions with and without the use of electronically available disease-specific templates.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2015
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8. How well do patients understand written instructions?: health literacy assessment in rural and urban rheumatology outpatients.Medicine · 2014
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9. A survey of how patient-perceived empathy affects the relationship between health literacy and the understanding of information by orthopedic patients?BMC public health · 2013
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10. Educating underserved Latino communities about family health history using lay health advisors.Public health genomics · 2011
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11. Pitfalls in health communication: healthcare policy, institution, structure, and process.MedGenMed : Medscape general medicine · 2004
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13. Does education plays a role in meeting the human rights needs of Indian women with mental illness?Journal of neurosciences in rural practice
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Corrections and comments

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  Inadequate functional health literacy among patients at two public hospitals.1995

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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