The roles of low literacy and social support in predicting the preventability of hospital admission.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on December 07, 2005

Authors

Ahsan M Arozullah1, Shoou-Yih D Lee, Taha Khan, Sindhu Kurup, Jeffrey Ryan, Michael Bonner, Robert Soltysik, Paul R Yarnold

Author Affiliations

1: Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. arozulla@uic.edu

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