Patient literacy. A barrier to quality of care.

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

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

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4. Mental Health Literacy Among Undergraduate Students of a Saudi Tertiary Institution: A Cross-sectional Study.Mental illness · 2016
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5. Engaging African-American Veterans in Mental Health Care: Patients' Perspectives.The Journal of nervous and mental disease · 2016
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6. Patient-physician communication about work-related asthma: what we do and do not know.Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology · 2015
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7. Evaluation of Socio-demographic Factors for Non-compliance to Treatment in Locally Advanced Cases of Cancer Cervix in a Rural Medical College Hospital in India.Indian journal of palliative care · 2013
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8. A proposed 'health literate care model' would constitute a systems approach to improving patients' engagement in care.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2013
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9. Patient activation and advocacy: which literacy skills matter most?Journal of health communication · 2011
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10. Oral health literacy levels among a low-income WIC population.Journal of public health dentistry · 2011
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11. The role of culture in health literacy and chronic disease screening and management.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2009
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12. Development of an easy-to-use Spanish Health Literacy test.Health services research · 2006
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Corrections and comments

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  Health literacy and the risk of hospital admission.1998

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Funding

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Abstract

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