Lower health literacy is associated with poorer health status and outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

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Published in J Gen Intern Med on August 14, 2012

Authors

Theodore A Omachi1, Urmimala Sarkar, Edward H Yelin, Paul D Blanc, Patricia P Katz

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA. omachi@ucsf.edu

Associated clinical trials:

Reducing Assessment Barriers for Patients With Low Literacy | NCT03584490

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