title: Health literacy in kidney disease: Review of the literature and implications for clinical practice.
abstract: Health literacy is the capacity of an individual to understand information related to a disease in order to make an informed decision. In patients with kidney diseases, studies have reported increasing impact of limited health literacy on health outcomes. Our paper discusses current literature on health literacy in kidney diseases.
authors.affiliation: Deepika Jain, Department of Nephrology, Hudson Kidney Group, Jersey City, NJ 07035, United States.
authors.forename: Deepika
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.affiliation: Deepika Jain, Department of Nephrology, Hudson Kidney Group, Jersey City, NJ 07035, United States.
authors.forename: Jamie Alton
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Green
keywords: Chronic kidney disease; Health literacy; Hemodialysis; Kidney diseases; Peritoneal dialysis; Rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine