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. 2019 Aug;66(4):805-826.
doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2019.03.007. Epub 2019 May 23.

Health Literacy in the Inpatient Setting: Implications for Patient Care and Patient Safety

Alexander F Glick  1 , Cindy Brach  2 , Hsiang Shonna Yin  3 , Benard P Dreyer  4
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Health Literacy in the Inpatient Setting: Implications for Patient Care and Patient Safety

Alexander F Glick et al. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2019 Aug.

Abstract

Health literacy plays a role in the events leading up to children's hospitalizations, during hospital admission, and after discharge. Hospitals and providers should use a universal precautions approach and routinely incorporate health-literacy-informed strategies in communicating with all patients and families to ensure that they can understand health information, follow medical instructions, participate actively in their own/their child's care, and successfully navigate the health care system. Interventions that incorporate health-literacy-informed strategies and that target patients/families and health care systems should be implemented to improve patient outcomes and patient-centered and family-centered care.

Keywords: Bedside rounds; Communication; Discharge; Health literacy; Inpatient care; Patient safety; Patient- and family-centered care; Pediatrics.

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