Health Literacy Among Parents of Pediatric Patients Seen in the Emergency Department
BACKGROUND: Health literacy is an important predictor of healthcare outcomes, but research on this topic has largely been absent from the emergency medicine literature.OBJECTIVE: We measured the prevalence of health literacy in parents or guardians of pediatric patients seen in the emergency departm...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2008-08-01
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Series: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/1dz4g1b3 |