The literacy divide: health literacy and the use of an internet-based patient portal in an integrated health system-results from the diabetes study of northern California (DISTANCE).

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Published in J Health Commun on January 01, 2010

Authors

Urmimala Sarkar1, Andrew J Karter, Jennifer Y Liu, Nancy E Adler, Robert Nguyen, Andrea Lopez, Dean Schillinger

Author Affiliations

1: UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, Department of Medicine, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California 94143-1364, USA. usarkar@medsfgh.ucsf.edu

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