Low health literacy associated with higher rate of death among heart failure patients
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 15:31
in Health & Medicine
An examination of health literacy (such as understanding basic health information) among managed care patients with heart failure, a condition that requires self-management, found that nearly one in five have low health literacy, which was associated with a higher all-cause risk of death, according to a study in the April 27 issue of JAMA.