Health Literacy and Use of Outpatient Physician Services by Medicare Managed Care Enrollees

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether inadequate functional health literacy adversely affects use of physician outpatient services. DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Community. PARTICIPANTS: New Medicare managed care enrollees age 65 or older in 4 U.S. cities (N = 3,260). MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: We me...

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Main Authors: Baker, David W, Gazmararian, Julie A, Williams, Mark V, Scott, Tracy, Parker, Ruth M, Green, Diane, Ren, Junling, Peel, Jennifer
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Blackwell Science Inc 2004
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1492157/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15009775
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.21130.x
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