Health literacy and use of outpatient physician services by medicare managed care enrollees
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Vol. 19 (3) , 215-220
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1525-1497.2004.21130.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether inadequate functional health literacy adversely affects use of physician outpatient services.Keywords
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