Open AccessDevelopment and Evaluation of CAHPS® Survey Items Assessing How Well Healthcare Providers Address Health Literacy
Author(s) -
Beverly A. Weidmer,
Cindy Brach,
Ron D. Hays
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0b013e3182652482
Subject(s) - health literacy , literacy , rating scale , health care , scale (ratio) , patient satisfaction , psychology , health communication , variance (accounting) , medicine , applied psychology , family medicine , nursing , business , pedagogy , economics , economic growth , developmental psychology , physics , accounting , communication , quantum mechanics
The complexity of health information often exceeds patients' skills to understand and use it.