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Health literacy of recently hospitalised patients: a cross-sectional survey using the Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ)

BACKGROUND: Health literacy is simply defined as an individual’s ability to access, understand and use information in ways that promote and maintain good health. Lower health literacy has been found to be associated with increased emergency department presentations and potentially avoidable hospital...

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Autores principales: Jessup, Rebecca L., Osborne, Richard H., Beauchamp, Alison, Bourne, Allison, Buchbinder, Rachelle
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5244731/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28103914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1973-6