Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

September 7 2010 20100907

Improving Your Health Literacy

May 20 2008 20080520

What's Your Health Literacy Score?

Other Patient & Consumer Resources

• Health Literacy External HHS Links
• How to Create a Pill Card
• Quick Tips--When Getting a Prescription
• Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital

Clinicians & Providers

• Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
• Health Literacy External HHS Links
• Health Literacy Interventions and Outcomes, Update
• Health Literacy Measurement Tools
• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Health Literacy in the Context of HIV Treatment: Introducing the Brief Estimate of Health Knowledge and Action (BEHKA)-HIV Version
• Highmark Uses AHRQ Materials in Health Literacy Outreach Program
• Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide
• Literacy & Health Outcomes
• Marshfield Clinic Using AHRQ's Patient Education Tools
• Marshfield Clinic, Family Health Center of Marshfield, Inc.
• Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
• Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population
• Pathfinder: Cultural and Linguistic Competency
• Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit
• Taking Care of Myself: A Guide for When I Leave the Hospital

Hospital & Health System Resources

• Health Literacy External HHS Links
• Health Literacy Measurement Tools
• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Medications at Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) Toolkit for Medication Reconciliation
• Multicenter Study of Preferences for Health Education in the Emergency Department Population
• Pathfinder: Cultural and Linguistic Competency
• Re-Engineered Discharge (RED) Toolkit

Policymaker Resources

• Health Literacy External HHS Links
• Pathfinder: Cultural and Linguistic Competency

Fact Sheets

September 1 2012 20120901

Health Literacy

September 1 2012 20120901

Health Literacy Measurement Tools

Other Research & Data

• A guided care approach helps curb health care costs of elderly patients with chronic conditions
• A simple question identifies patients with low health literacy
• AHRQ initiative encourages better two-way communication between clinicians and patients
• AHRQ releases pharmacy health literacy modules for faculty
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
• American College of Physicians
• American Medical Association (AMA)/AMA Foundation
• American Medical Association/AMA Foundation
• Black Medicare patients less likely than whites to follow their doctor's instructions on taking medicines
• Curricular modules teach budding pharmacists how to engage patients with low health literacy
• Depression, hearing impairment, and health literacy influence older adults' abilities to self-manage their care
• Guide for Developing a Community-Based Patient Safety Advisory Council
• Health Literacy External HHS Links
• Health Literacy in Action: Design, Development, and Measurement (Text Version)
• Health literacy issues less of a problem for patients with dental versus medical conditions
• Health literacy level has no impact on frequency of blood-glucose monitoring for inner-city patients with diabetes
• Highmark Uses AHRQ Materials in Health Literacy Outreach Program
• Interactive graphics for expressing health risks: Development and qual
• Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide
• Kaiser Permanente Southern California; Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, California
• Low health literacy linked to higher risk of death and more emergency room visits and hospitalizations
• Lower educational level increases the likelihood of preclinical changes in mobility in older women
• Marshfield Clinic Using AHRQ's Patient Education Tools
• Marshfield Clinic, Family Health Center of Marshfield, Inc.
• Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health
• Men and blacks less likely to be aware of cancer screening benefits
• Mount Sinai School of Medicine
• North Carolina Healthy Start Foundation
• Pathfinder: Cultural and Linguistic Competency
• Patients with adult-onset diabetes with limited health literacy more likely to suffer hypoglycemic episodes
• Patients with limited health literacy less likely to use an Internet portal for diabetes and other health information
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Physicians need better understanding of factors that patients use to decide about colorectal cancer screening
• Racial and ethnic minority groups are less aware than whites of genetic testing for cancer risk
• Re-engineered discharge project dramatically reduces return trips to the hospital
• Research Briefs
• Simple tool to measure health literacy in patients with HIV successfully predicts medication adherence
• Simpler drug warning labels are easier to understand
• Simplified drug warnings improve patients' understanding of what to do or avoid when given a particular prescription
• Telephone counseling helps Korean Americans who speak little English improve hypertension management
• Tough questions get answers through health IT
• Transparency enhances physician communication with patients
• University of Buenos Aires
• University of Missouri Center for Health Policy/Health Literacy Missouri
• While young women are knowledgeable about the HPV vaccine, many have yet to be vaccinated to prevent cervical cancer
• Women's lack of knowledge and mistrust play a role in underuse of breast cancer adjuvant therapy

Press Releases

March 28 2011 20110328

Low Health Literacy Linked to Higher Risk of Death and More Emergency Room Visits and Hospitalizations

Advice Columns from Dr. Carolyn Clancy

September 7 2010 20100907

Improving Your Health Literacy

May 20 2008 20080520

What's Your Health Literacy Score?

Other News & Events

• A guided care approach helps curb health care costs of elderly patients with chronic conditions
• A simple question identifies patients with low health literacy
• AHRQ initiative encourages better two-way communication between clinicians and patients
• AHRQ releases new health literacy tool
• AHRQ releases pharmacy health literacy modules for faculty
• AHRQ's clinical care tools help clinicians ensure better and safer care
• Black Medicare patients less likely than whites to follow their doctor's instructions on taking medicines
• Depression, hearing impairment, and health literacy influence older adults' abilities to self-manage their care
• Guideline familiarity does not equal guideline adherence
• Health Literacy External HHS Links
• Health Literacy Toolkit Published
• Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit
• Health literacy issues less of a problem for patients with dental versus medical conditions
• Health literacy level has no impact on frequency of blood-glucose monitoring for inner-city patients with diabetes
• Interactive graphics for expressing health risks: Development and qual
• Low health literacy linked to higher risk of death and more emergency room visits and hospitalizations
• Lower educational level increases the likelihood of preclinical changes in mobility in older women
• Men and blacks less likely to be aware of cancer screening benefits
• New AHRQ podcasts focus on cystic fibrosis and health literacy
• New surveys evaluate culturally competent and health-literate care
• Pathfinder: Cultural and Linguistic Competency
• Patients with adult-onset diabetes with limited health literacy more likely to suffer hypoglycemic episodes
• Patients with limited health literacy less likely to use an Internet portal for diabetes and other health information
• Pharmacy intervention for patients with limited literacy evokes positive responses from patients and pharmacists
• Physicians need better understanding of factors that patients use to decide about colorectal cancer screening
• Racial and ethnic minority groups are less aware than whites of genetic testing for cancer risk
• Re-engineered discharge project dramatically reduces return trips to the hospital
• Research Briefs
• Simple tool to measure health literacy in patients with HIV successfully predicts medication adherence
• Simpler drug warning labels are easier to understand
• Simplified drug warnings improve patients' understanding of what to do or avoid when given a particular prescription
• Telephone counseling helps Korean Americans who speak little English improve hypertension management
• Tough questions get answers through health IT
• Transparency enhances physician communication with patients
• While young women are knowledgeable about the HPV vaccine, many have yet to be vaccinated to prevent cervical cancer
• Women's lack of knowledge and mistrust play a role in underuse of breast cancer adjuvant therapy