Health Literacy in the Inpatient Setting

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 informati on, 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 pat ient outcomes and patient-centered and family-centered care.
Source: Pediatric Clinics of North America - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Source Type: research