title: Health literacy: the most important vital sign?
abstract: New, quick assessment tool is leaving many physicians stunned. Why? Because they'refinding out just how many of their patients have low-health literacy, a problem that is much more common than most practitioners believe, affecting as much as half the population. Studies show that low health literacy is responsible for poorer outcomes and substantial costs. To address the issue, researchers have developed and validated a new tool that can assess health literacy in as little as three minutes.
mesh_terms: D032882:Comprehension; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D014481:United States