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The impact of health literacy in the care of surgical patients: a qualitative systematic review

BACKGROUND: Inadequate health literacy affects more than 90 million Americans and it has been associated with adverse outcomes in the medicine field including increased hospitalization rates and greater mortality. Since surgical patients are often required to make complex decisions and adhere to com...

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Autores principales: De Oliveira, Gildasio S., McCarthy, Robert J., Wolf, Michael S., Holl, Jane
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26182987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-015-0073-6

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