Health Literacy Rates in a Population of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis in Southwestern Ontario.

CONCLUSION: Low health literacy is an important issue in the southwestern Ontario RA population. About 1 in 7 patients with RA may not have the necessary skills to become involved in making decisions regarding their personal health. Rheumatologists should be aware of the low health literacy levels of patients with RA and should consider identifying patients at risk of low health literacy. PMID: 26233510 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: J Rheumatol - August 1, 2015 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Gong Z, Haig SL, Pope JE, Rohekar S, Rohekar G, LeRiche NG, Thompson AE Tags: J Rheumatol Source Type: research