Improving health literacy
: guidelines

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Clinical Advisor,

It is no longer recommended that patients with low health literacy be identified. Instead, Universal Health Literacy Precautions are recommended.

While some providers are concerned that using plain language with health-literate patients will offend, studies show that patients with adequate health literacy prefer to receive health information in an easier to understand format.

Further, research indicates that patients with limited literacy will avoid contact with the healthcare system if they fear that their literacy issues will be discovered.

  • Read more here
  • Access AHRQ health literacy universal precautions toolkit here
  • Access Toolkit for making written material clear and effective here
By J Pope

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