Published in J Gen Intern Med on August 01, 2006
How health care systems can begin to address the challenge of limited literacy. J Gen Intern Med (2006) 2.46
Improving patient understanding of prescription drug label instructions. J Gen Intern Med (2008) 2.39
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Variability in pharmacy interpretations of physician prescriptions. Med Care (2009) 2.18
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Improving medication management among at-risk older adults. J Gerontol Nurs (2012) 1.39
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Gender differences in medication management capacity in HIV infection: the role of health literacy and numeracy. AIDS Behav (2008) 1.21
Usability of FDA-approved medication guides. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 1.20
Health literacy and the patient with heart failure--implications for patient care and research: a consensus statement of the Heart Failure Society of America. J Card Fail (2009) 1.19
Differential predictors of medication adherence in HIV: findings from a sample of African American and Caucasian HIV-positive drug-using adults. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2012) 1.16
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Improving prescription drug warnings to promote patient comprehension. Arch Intern Med (2010) 1.11
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Access to multilingual medication instructions at New York City pharmacies. J Urban Health (2007) 1.10
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How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: insights from a qualitative investigation. BMC Health Serv Res (2013) 0.97
Measuring patients' self-efficacy in understanding and using prescription medication. Patient Educ Couns (2010) 0.96
Development of the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT): a new measure of understandability and actionability for print and audiovisual patient information. Patient Educ Couns (2014) 0.95
Randomized clinical trial of HIV treatment adherence counseling interventions for people living with HIV and limited health literacy. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2013) 0.95
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Health literacy and self-care of patients with heart failure. J Cardiovasc Nurs (2011) 0.90
Quantifying age-related differences in information processing behaviors when viewing prescription drug labels. PLoS One (2012) 0.89
The relationship among health literacy, health knowledge, and adherence to treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. HSS J (2012) 0.89
Media, messages, and medication: strategies to reconcile what patients hear, what they want, and what they need from medications. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak (2013) 0.89
Development and validation of a brief computer-administered HIV-Related Health Literacy Scale (HIV-HL). AIDS Behav (2013) 0.89
Limited health literacy is associated with low glomerular filtration in the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study. Clin Nephrol (2014) 0.86
Development of a patient-centered bilingual prescription drug label. J Health Commun (2013) 0.85
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An EMR-based tool to support collaborative planning for medication use among adults with diabetes: design of a multi-site randomized control trial. Contemp Clin Trials (2012) 0.84
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Examining the conspicuousness and prominence of two required warnings on OTC pain relievers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 0.83
Development and validation of the comprehensive health activities scale: a new approach to health literacy measurement. J Health Commun (2014) 0.81
What patients think doctors know: beliefs about provider knowledge as barriers to safe medication use. Patient Educ Couns (2013) 0.81
Accuracy in self-reported health literacy screening: a difference between men and women in Taiwan. BMJ Open (2013) 0.81
Factors affecting medication adherence in elderly people. Patient Prefer Adherence (2016) 0.81
Use of active ingredient information for low socioeconomic status parents' decision-making regarding cough and cold medications: role of health literacy. Acad Pediatr (2013) 0.81
Collaborating with youth to inform and develop tools for psychotropic decision making. J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry (2010) 0.80
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Improving accuracy of medication identification in an older population using a medication bottle color symbol label system. BMC Fam Pract (2011) 0.75
Readability of patient education materials in ophthalmology: a single-institution study and systematic review. BMC Ophthalmol (2016) 0.75
High PSA anxiety and low health literacy skills: drivers of early use of salvage ADT among men with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer after radiotherapy? Ann Oncol (2015) 0.75
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Simplifying drug package leaflets written in Spanish by using word embedding. J Biomed Semantics (2017) 0.75
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Health literacy and mortality among elderly persons. Arch Intern Med (2007) 5.14
Acute myeloid leukemia or myelodysplastic syndrome following use of granulocyte colony-stimulating factors during breast cancer adjuvant chemotherapy. J Natl Cancer Inst (2007) 4.97
Use of epoetin in patients with cancer: evidence-based clinical practice guidelines of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology. J Clin Oncol (2002) 4.69
High rates of adverse drug events in a highly computerized hospital. Arch Intern Med (2005) 4.68
Health literacy and cancer communication. CA Cancer J Clin (2002) 4.66
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The causal pathways linking health literacy to health outcomes. Am J Health Behav (2007) 4.49
Initial hormonal management of androgen-sensitive metastatic, recurrent, or progressive prostate cancer: 2006 update of an American Society of Clinical Oncology practice guideline. J Clin Oncol (2007) 3.91
Use of epoetin and darbepoetin in patients with cancer: 2007 American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society of Hematology clinical practice guideline update. J Clin Oncol (2007) 3.85
The association of health literacy with cervical cancer prevention knowledge and health behaviors in a multiethnic cohort of women. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2002) 3.63
Hypersensitivity cases associated with drug-eluting coronary stents: a review of available cases from the Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) project. J Am Coll Cardiol (2005) 3.38
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Monoclonal antibody-associated progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy in patients treated with rituximab, natalizumab, and efalizumab: a Review from the Research on Adverse Drug Events and Reports (RADAR) Project. Lancet Oncol (2009) 3.26
Recombinant human erythropoietins and cancer patients: updated meta-analysis of 57 studies including 9353 patients. J Natl Cancer Inst (2006) 3.23
Treatment success in cancer: new cancer treatment successes identified in phase 3 randomized controlled trials conducted by the National Cancer Institute-sponsored cooperative oncology groups, 1955 to 2006. Arch Intern Med (2008) 3.07
Small bowel cancer in the United States: changes in epidemiology, treatment, and survival over the last 20 years. Ann Surg (2009) 3.07
Systematic review and meta-analysis of monotherapy compared with combined androgen blockade for patients with advanced prostate carcinoma. Cancer (2002) 3.05
Social stigma concerns and HIV medication adherence. AIDS Patient Care STDS (2006) 3.02
Results of the Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) study: an analysis of medication reconciliation errors and risk factors at hospital admission. J Gen Intern Med (2010) 2.94
A randomized trial of medical care management for community mental health settings: the Primary Care Access, Referral, and Evaluation (PCARE) study. Am J Psychiatry (2009) 2.90
To err is human: patient misinterpretations of prescription drug label instructions. Patient Educ Couns (2007) 2.86
The impact of low health literacy on the medical costs of Medicare managed care enrollees. Am J Med (2005) 2.82
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Assessing the validity of national quality measures for coronary artery disease using an electronic health record. Arch Intern Med (2006) 2.44
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Estimating the cost of cancer: results on the basis of claims data analyses for cancer patients diagnosed with seven types of cancer during 1999 to 2000. J Clin Oncol (2004) 2.33
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Accelerated approval of cancer drugs: improved access to therapeutic breakthroughs or early release of unsafe and ineffective drugs? J Clin Oncol (2009) 2.16
American Society of Clinical Oncology/American Society of Hematology clinical practice guideline update on the use of epoetin and darbepoetin in adult patients with cancer. J Clin Oncol (2010) 2.16
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Creating a better discharge summary: improvement in quality and timeliness using an electronic discharge summary. J Hosp Med (2009) 2.09
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Reduced penile size and treatment regret in men with recurrent prostate cancer after surgery, radiotherapy plus androgen deprivation, or radiotherapy alone. Urology (2013) 2.04
Development and validation of a short-form, rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine. Med Care (2007) 2.04
Parents' medication administration errors: role of dosing instruments and health literacy. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med (2010) 2.01
Racial and ethnic disparities in emergency department analgesic prescription. Am J Public Health (2003) 1.99
Differences in leisure-time, household, and work-related physical activity by race, ethnicity, and education. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.98
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Costs and cost-effectiveness of a low-intensity patient-directed intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening. J Clin Oncol (2007) 1.91
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Changes in weight among a nationally representative cohort of adults aged 51 to 61, 1992 to 2000. Am J Prev Med (2004) 1.87
Evaluation of consistency in dosing directions and measuring devices for pediatric nonprescription liquid medications. JAMA (2010) 1.85
Intermittent lack of health insurance coverage and use of preventive services. Am J Public Health (2003) 1.85
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The variability and quality of medication container labels. Arch Intern Med (2007) 1.83
Public health literacy in America: an ethical imperative. Am J Prev Med (2005) 1.82
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Literacy, cognitive function, and health: results of the LitCog study. J Gen Intern Med (2012) 1.73
Health literacy and health risk behaviors among older adults. Am J Prev Med (2006) 1.72
Cognitive Function and Health Literacy Decline in a Cohort of Aging English Adults. J Gen Intern Med (2015) 1.69
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Evidence does not support clinical screening of literacy. J Gen Intern Med (2007) 1.65
Explaining US racial/ethnic disparities in health declines and mortality in late middle age: the roles of socioeconomic status, health behaviors, and health insurance. Soc Sci Med (2005) 1.64
Body mass index, physical activity, and the risk of decline in overall health and physical functioning in late middle age. Am J Public Health (2004) 1.64
Communication techniques for patients with low health literacy: a survey of physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Am J Health Behav (2007) 1.64
Relationship between literacy, knowledge, self-care behaviors, and heart failure-related quality of life among patients with heart failure. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 1.64