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Impact of low health literacy on patients’ health outcomes: a multicenter cohort study

BMC Health Services Research · 2022 · Vol. 22(1) · pp. 1148–1148

Rabia Shahid✉(University of Saskatchewan)Muhammad Shoker(University of Saskatchewan)Luan Manh Chu(Alberta Health Services)Ryan Frehlick(University of Saskatchewan)Heather Ward(University of Saskatchewan)Punam Pahwa(University of Saskatchewan)

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Abstract

Only half of the patients admitted to the general internal medicine unit had adequate health literacy. Patients with low health literacy, but high education, had a higher probability of emergency department revisits.

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