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We thank the editorial staff for their insightful comments and agree with their assessment. Our study aimed to raise awareness about health literacy disparities that exist amongst urology patients – as increasing awareness is the first step toward implementing change. Providers often underestimate a patient's health literacy which can greatly impact preoperative counseling, education, and surgical outcomes.1 While health literacy has been studied amongst urologic oncology patients, there ar e limited to no data available regarding the effects of health literacy on surgical outcomes following reconstructive and prosthetic surgery.
Source: Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Source Type: research