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Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association. (1999). Health literacy: report of the Council on Scientific Affairs. JAMA. 281(6):552-7.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Literacy and Health Outcomes, Structured Abstract. January 2004. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/tp/littp.htm.

Austin PE, Matlack R 2nd, Dunn KA, Kesler C, Brown CK. (1995). Discharge instructions: do illustrations help our patients understand them? Ann Emerg Med. 25(3):317-20.

Baker DW, Parker RM, Williams MV, Clark WS (1998). Health literacy and the risk of hospital admission. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 13(12): 791-8.

Baker DW, Gazmararian JA, Williams MV, Scott T, Parker RM, Green D, Ren J, Peel J. (2002). Functional health literacy and the risk of hospital admission among Medicare managed care enrollees. American Journal of Public Health. 92(8):1278-83.

Baker DW, Gazmararian JA, Williams MV, Scott T, Parker RM, Green D, Ren J, Peel J. (2004). Health Literacy and Use of Outpatient Physician Services by Medicare Managed Care Enrollees. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 19(3): 215–220.

Baker DW, Wolf MS, Feinglass J, Thompson JA, Gazmararian JA, Huang J.(2006). Health literacy and mortality among elderly persons. Arch Intern Med. 167(14):1503-9.

Bass PF 3rd, Wilson JF, Griffith CH. (2003).A shortened instrument for literacy screening. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 18(12):1036-8.

Bass L.(2005). Health literacy: implications for teaching the adult patient. J Infus Nurs;28(1):15-22.

Brown L, Upchurch G, Frank SK. (2006). Low health literacy: what pharmacists can do to help. J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash DC). 46(1):4-11.

Brownson K.(1998). Education handouts. Are we wasting our time? J Nurses Staff Dev.14(4):176-82.

Campbell MK, Demark-Wahnefried W, Symons M, Kalsbeek WD, Dodds J, Cowan A, Jackson B, Motsinger B, Hoben K, Lashley J, Demissie S, McClelland JW. (1999). Fruit and vegetable consumption and prevention of cancer: the Black Churches United for Better Health project. Am J Public Health. 89(9):1390-6.

Chew LD, Bradley KA, Boyko EJ. (2004). Brief questions to identify patients with inadequate health literacy. Family Medicine. 36(8):588-94.

Cutilli CC. (2005). Do your patients understand? Determining your patients' health literacy skills. Orthop Nurs. 24(5):372-7.

Cutilli CC.(2005). Health literacy: what you need to know. Orthop Nurs. 24(3):227-31.

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Daggett LM, Rigdon KL. (2006). A computer-assisted instructional program for teaching portion size versus serving size. J Community Health Nurs. 23(1):29-35.

Davis TC, Wolf MS. (2004). Health literacy: implications for family medicine. Family Medicine. 36(8): 595-8.

Davis, TC; Crouch, MA; Long, SW; Jackson, RJ; Bates, P; George, RB; Bairnsfather, LE. (1991).Rapid assessment of literacy levels of adult primary care patients. Family Medicine 23(6):433-5.

Davis T, Long SW, Jackson RH, Mayeaux EJ, George RB, Murphy PW, Crouch MA. (1993). Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM): A shortened Screening Instrument. Family Medicine.25(6):391-5.

Davis, TC.; Michielutte, R; Askov, EN.; Williams, MV.; Weiss, Barry D. (1998). Practical assessment of adult literacy in health care. Health Education & Behavior 5(5):613-24.

Davis TC, Wolf MS, Bass PF 3rd, Thompson JA, Tilson HH, Neuberger M, Parker RM. (2006). Literacy and misunderstanding prescription drug labels. Annals of Internal Medicine. 145(12):887-94.

Davis TC, Wolf MS, Bass PF 3rd, Middlebrooks M, Kennen E, Baker DW, Bennett CL, Durazo=Arvizo R, Bocchini A, Savory S, Parker RM. (2006). Low literacy impairs comprehension of prescription drug warning labels. Journal of General Internal Medicinee. 21(8) 847-51.

Fry E, (1986).Readability Formula That Saves Time. Journal of Reading. 2(7): 512-516, 575-578.

Gazmararian JA, Kripalani S, Miller MJ, Echt KV, Ren J, Rask K.(2006). Factors associated with medication refill adherence in cardiovascular-related diseases: a focus on health literacy. J Gen Intern Med. 21(12):1215-21.

Hixon AL (2004). Functional health literacy: improving health outcomes. American Family Physician. 69(9): 2077-8.

Howard DH, Sentell T, Gazmararian JA. (2006). Impact of health literacy on socioeconomic and racial differences in health in an elderly population. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):857-61.

Hwang SW, Tram CQ, Knarr N. (2005). The effect of illustrations on patient comprehension of medication instruction labels. BMC Fam Pract. 6(1):26.

James DC. (2004). Factors influencing food choices, dietary intake, and nutrition-related attitudes among African Americans: application of a culturally sensitive model. Ethn Health. 9(4):349-67.

Joint Commission. (2007). 2007 National patient safety goals. http://www.jointcommission.org/PatientSafety/NationalPatientSafetyGoals/. Accessed January 16, 2007.

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Keselman A, Tse T, Crowell J, Browne A, Ngo L, Zeng Q. Assessing consumer health vocabulary familiarity: an exploratory study. J Med Internet Res. 2007 Mar 14;9(1):e5.

Kobylarz FA, Pomidor A, Heath JM. (2006).SPEAK. A mnemonic tool for addressing health literacy concerns in geriatric clinical encounters. Geriatrics. 61(7):20-6.

Kripalani S, Weiss BD. (2006). Teaching about health literacy and clear communication. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):888-90.

Krukowski RA, Harvey-Berino J, Kolodinsky J, Narsana RT, Desisto TP. (2006). Consumers may not use or understand calorie labeling in restaurants. J Am Diet Assoc. 106(6):917-20.

Landers SJ. (2005). Variety of reasons medicine not taken, a survey of seniors say. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/05/09/hlsa0509.htm. Accessed January 19, 2007.

Lee SY, Bender DE, Ruiz RE, Cho YI.(2006). Development of an easy-to-use Spanish Health Literacy test. Health Serv Res. 41(4 Pt 1):1392-412.

Levy L, Patterson RE, Kristal AR, Li SS. (2000). How well do consumers understand percentage daily value on food labels? Am J Health Promot. 14(3):157-60, ii.

Lo S, Sharif I, Ozuah PO. (2006). Health literacy among English-speaking parents in a poor urban setting. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 17(3):504-11.

Madlon-Kay DJ, Mosch FS. (2000). Liquid medication dosing errors. Journal of Family Practice. 49(8):741-4.

Makaryus AN, Friedman EA. (2005). Patients' understanding of their treatment plans and diagnosis at discharge. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 80(8):991-4.

Manning DL, Dickens C. (2006). Health literacy: more choice, but do cancer patients have the skills to decide? Eur J Cancer Care (Engl). 15(5):448-52.

Mantone J.(2005). Reading, writing and relating. Modern Healthcare. 35(32):30-31.

McCabe JA. (2006). An assignment for building an awareness of the intersection of health literacy and cultural competence skills. J Med Libr Assoc. 94(4):458-61.

McCray AT.(2005). Promoting Health Literacy J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc. 12: 152-163.

Miller S, Davis T (1995). Patients who can’t read: implications for the health care system. JMA. 274(21): 1719-20.

Morris NS, MacLean CD, Littenberg B.(2006). Literacy and health outcomes: a cross-sectional study in 1002 adults with diabetes. BMC Fam Pract. 14:7:49.

Morris NS, MacLean CD, Chew LD, Littenberg B.(2006). The Single Item Literacy Screener: evaluation of a brief instrument to identify limited reading ability. BMC Fam Pract. 24:7:21.

Murphy R, Davis T, Long S, Jackson R, Decker B.(1993). Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM): a quick reading test for patients. Journal of Reading. 37(2):124-30.

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Nath CR, Sylvester ST, Yasek V, Gunel E. (2001).Development and validation of a literacy assessment tool for persons with diabetes. Diabetes Educator.27(6):857-64.

Osborne H. (2006). Health literacy: how visuals can help tell the healthcare story. J Vis Commun Med. 29(1):28-32.

Paasche-Orlow MK, Parker RM, Gazmararian JA, Nielsen-Bohlman LT, Rudd RR.(2005). The prevalence of limited health literacy. J Gen Intern Med. 20(2):175-84.

Parikh NS, Parker RM, Nurss JR, Baker DW, Williams MV. (1996). Shame and health literacy: the unspoken connection. Patient Education & Counseling. 27(1):33-9.

Pelletier AL, Chang WW, Delzell JE Jr, McCall JW. (2004). Patients' understanding and use of snack food package nutrition labels. J Am Board Fam Pract. 17(5):319-23.

Praska JL, Kripalani S, Seright AL, Jacobson TA.(2005). Identifying and assisting low-literacy patients with medication use: a survey of community pharmacies. Ann Pharmacother. 39(9):1441-5.

Porr C, Drummond J, Richter S. (2006).Health literacy as an empowerment tool for low-income mothers. Fam Community Health. 29(4):328-35.

Ratzan SC, Parker RM.(2006). Health literacy - identification and response. J Health Commun. 11(8):713-5.

Riley JB, Cloonan P, Norton C. (2006). Low health literacy: a challenge to critical care. Crit Care Nurs Q. 29(2):174-8.

Rosenow EC. (2005). Patients’ understanding of their treatment plans and diagnosis at discharge. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 80(8):983-7.

Roter DL, Rudd RE, Comings J (1998). Patient literacy. A barrier to quality of care. Journal of General Internal Medicine. 13(12): 850-1.

Rothman RL, Housam R, Weiss H, Davis D, Gregory R, Gebretsadik T, Shintani A, Elasy TA. (2006). Patient understanding of food labels: the role of literacy and numeracy. Am J Prev Med. 31(5):391-8.

Rudd RE, Comings JP, Hyde JN. (2003). Leave no one behind: improving health and risk communication through attention to literacy. J Health Commun. 8 Suppl 1:104-15.

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Safeer RS, Keenan J. (2005). Health literacy: the gap between physicians and patients. Am Fam Physician. 72(3):463-8.

Sarkar U, Fisher L, Schillinger D.(2006). Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy? Diabetes Care. 29(4):823-9.

Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Piette J, Wang F, Osmond D, Daher C, Palacios J, Sullivan GD, Bindman AB.(2002). Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes. JAMA. 288(4):475-82.

Schneider JM (2006). Health literacy: matching patrons to the right materials. Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 6(2): 99-105.

Sentell TL, Halpin HA. (2006). Importance of adult literacy in understanding health disparities. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):862-6.

Shea JA, Beers BB, McDonald VJ, Quistberg DA, Ravenell KL, Asch DA. Assessing health literacy in African American and Caucasian adults: disparities in rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine (REALM) scores. Fam Med. 2004 Sep;36(8):575-81.

Sorrell JM. (2006). Health literacy in older adults. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv. 44(3):17-20.

Wallace L; North American Primary Care Research Group. (2006). Patients' health literacy skills: the missing demographic variable in primary care research. Ann Fam Med. 4(1):85-6.

Wallace LS, Rogers ES, Roskos SE, Holiday DB, Weiss BD.(2006). Brief report: screening items to identify patients with limited health literacy skills. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):874-7.

Weiss BD, Mays MZ, Martz W, Castro KM, DeWalt DA, Pignone MP, Mockbee J, Hale FA. (2005). Quick assessment of literacy in primary care: the newest vital sign. Ann Fam Med. 3(6):514-22.

Wilson J. (2006). Meeting the health literacy needs of clients. Nurs N Z. 12(7):18-9

Wolf MS, Davis TC, Tilson HH, Bass PF 3rd, Parker RM. (2006). Misunderstanding of prescription drug warning labels among patients with low literacy. Am J Health Syst Pharm.;63(11):1048-55.

Wolf MS, Gazmararian JA, Baker DW. (2006). Health literacy and functional health status among older adults. Arch Intern Med. 165(17):1946-52.

Wolf MS, Gazmararian JA, Baker DW.(2007). Health literacy and health risk behaviors among older adults. Am J Prev Med. 32(1):19-24.

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Disciplinary

Cardiovascular-Diabetes-Family-Geriatrics-Mental Health-Pharmacological

Cardiovascular

DeWalt DA, Pignone M, Malone R, Rawls C, Kosnar MC, George G, Bryant B, Rothman RL, Angel B. (2004). Development and pilot testing of a disease management program for low literacy patients with heart failure. Patient Educ Couns. 55(1):78-86.

DeWalt DA, Malone RM, Bryant ME, Kosnar MC, Corr KE, Rothman RL, Sueta CA, Pignone MP. (2006). A heart failure self-management program for patients of all literacy levels: a randomized, controlled trial. BMC Health Serv Res. 6:30.

Diabetes -

James DC. (2004). Factors influencing food choices, dietary intake, and nutrition-related attitudes among African Americans: application of a culturally sensitive model. Ethn Health. 9(4):349-67.

Levy L, Patterson RE, Kristal AR, Li SS. (2000). How well do consumers understand percentage daily value on food labels? Am J Health Promot. 14(3):157-60, ii.

Morris NS, MacLean CD, Littenberg B.(2006). Literacy and health outcomes: a cross-sectional study in 1002 adults with diabetes. BMC Fam Pract. 14:7:49.

Nath CR, Sylvester ST, Yasek V, Gunel E. (2001).Development and validation of a literacy assessment tool for persons with diabetes. Diabetes Educator.27(6):857-64.

Pelletier AL, Chang WW, Delzell JE Jr, McCall JW. (2004). Patients' understanding and use of snack food package nutrition labels. J Am Board Fam Pract. 17(5):319-23.

Rothman R, Malone R, Bryant B, Horlen C, DeWalt D, Pignone M. (2004). The relationship between literacy and glycemic control in a diabetes disease-management program. Diabetes Educ. 30(2):263-73.

Rothman RL, Housam R, Weiss H, Davis D, Gregory R, Gebretsadik T, Shintani A, Elasy TA. (2006). Patient understanding of food labels: the role of literacy and numeracy. Am J Prev Med. 31(5):391-8.

Sarkar U, Fisher L, Schillinger D.(2006). Is self-efficacy associated with diabetes self-management across race/ethnicity and health literacy? Diabetes Care. 29(4):823-9.

Schillinger D, Grumbach K, Piette J, Wang F, Osmond D, Daher C, Palacios J, Sullivan GD, Bindman AB.(2002). Association of health literacy with diabetes outcomes. JAMA. 288(4):475-82.

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Family Medicine

Davis TC (2004). Health literacy: implications for family medicine. Family Medicine. 36(8): 595-8.

Davis, TC; Crouch, MA; Long, SW; Jackson, RJ; Bates, P; George, RB; Bairnsfather, LE. (1991).Rapid assessment of literacy levels of adult primary care patients. Family Medicine 23(6):433-5.

Hixon AL (2004). Functional health literacy: improving health outcomes. American Family Physician. 69(9): 2077-8.

Wilson J. (2006). Meeting the health literacy needs of clients. Nurs N Z. 12(7):18-9

Geriatrics -

Howard DH, Sentell T, Gazmararian JA. (2006). Impact of health literacy on socioeconomic and racial differences in health in an elderly population. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):857-61.

Kobylarz FA, Pomidor A, Heath JM. (2006). SPEAK. A mnemonic tool for addressing health literacy concerns in geriatric clinical encounters. Geriatrics. 61(7):20-6.

Landers SJ. (2005). Variety of reasons medicine not taken, a survey of seniors say. http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/05/09/hlsa0509.htm.

Sorrell JM. (2006). Health literacy in older adults. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv. 44(3):17-20.

Sudore RL, Yaffe K, Satterfield S, Harris TB, Mehta KM, Simonsick EM, Newman AB, Rosano C, Rooks R, Rubin SM, Ayonayon HN, Schillinger D.(2006) Limited literacy and mortality in the elderly: the health, aging, and body composition study. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):806-12.

Wolf MS, Gazmararian JA, Baker DW. (2006). Health literacy and functional health status among older adults. Arch Intern Med. 165(17):1946-52.

Wolf MS, Gazmararian JA, Baker DW.(2007). Health literacy and health risk behaviors among older adults. Am J Prev Med. 32(1):19-24.

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Mental Health

Francis L, Weiss BD, Senf JH, Heist K, Hargraves R. (2007). Does literacy education improve symptoms of depression and self-efficacy in individuals with low literacy and depressive symptoms? A preliminary investigation. J Am Board Fam Med. 20(1):23-7.

Lincoln A, Paasche-Orlow MK, Cheng DM, Lloyd-Travaglini C, Caruso C, Saitz R, Samet JH. (2006). Impact of health literacy on depressive symptoms and mental health-related: quality of life among adults with addiction. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):818-22.

Sentell TL, Ratcliff-Baird B. (2003). Literacy and comprehension of Beck Depression Inventory response alternatives. Community Ment Health J. 39(4):323-31.

Weiss BD, Francis L, Senf JH, Heist K, Hargraves R. (2006). Literacy education as treatment for depression in patients with limited literacy and depression: a randomized controlled trial. J Gen Intern Med. 21(8):823-8.

Pharmacological

Brown L, Upchurch G, Frank SK. (2006). Low health literacy: what pharmacists can do to help. J Am Pharm Assoc (Wash DC). 46(1):4-11.

Davis TC, Wolf MS, Bass PF 3rd, Thompson JA, Tilson HH, Neuberger M, Parker RM. (2006). Literacy and misunderstanding prescription drug labels. Annals of Internal Medicine. 145(12):887-94.

Madlon-Kay DJ, Mosch FS. (2000). Liquid medication dosing errors. Journal of Family Practice. 49(8):741-4.

Praska JL, Kripalani S, Seright AL, Jacobson TA.(2005). Identifying and assisting low-literacy patients with medication use: a survey of community pharmacies. Ann Pharmacother. 39(9):1441-5.

Wolf MS, Davis TC, Tilson HH, Bass PF 3rd, Parker RM. (2006). Misunderstanding of prescription drug warning labels among patients with low literacy. Am J Health Syst Pharm.;63(11):1048-55.

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General-Hospitals/Health Care Facilities - Patient Instructions-Use of Illustrations

General Overview -

Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association. (1999). Health literacy: report of the Council on Scientific Affairs. JAMA. 281(6):552-7.

Bass L. Health literacy: implications for teaching the adult patient. J Infus Nurs. 2005 Jan-Feb;28(1):15-22.

Cutilli CC.(2005). Health literacy: what you need to know. Orthop Nurs. 24(3):227-31