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The causal pathways linking health literacy to health outcomesMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Am J Health Behav 31:S19-26. 2007..To provide an evidence-based review of plausible causal pathways that could best explain well-established associations between limited health literacy and health outcomes...- Evidence does not support clinical screening of literacyMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:100-2. 2008..There is fair evidence to suggest that possible harm outweighs any current benefits; therefore, clinical screening for literacy should not be recommended at this time... - National survey of patients' bill of rights statutesMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Department of Medicine, Boston, University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 24:489-94. 2009..Because such initiatives can be undermined by overly complex language, we surveyed the readability of hospital PBOR documents as well as texts mandated by state law... - Promoting health literacy research to reduce health disparitiesMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Health Commun 15:34-41. 2010..This paper presents recommendations for a research agenda that is focused on advancing the science for how health literacy research can promote the effort to eliminate health disparities... - How health care systems can begin to address the challenge of limited literacyMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:884-7. 2006 - Health literacy, antiretroviral adherence, and HIV-RNA suppression: a longitudinal perspectiveMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:835-40. 2006..Low health literacy has been associated with worse adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and higher HIV-RNA levels, but these relationships have not been evaluated in longitudinal analyses... - Educational attainment but not literacy is associated with HIV risk behavior among incarcerated womenMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 14:852-9. 2005..To identify the educational factors associated with HIV risk behaviors among incarcerated women... - Tailored education may reduce health literacy disparities in asthma self-managementMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 172:980-6. 2005.... - Caring for patients with limited health literacy: a 76-year-old man with multiple medical problemsMichael Paasche-Orlow
Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
JAMA 306:1122-9. 2011.... - Notices of Privacy Practices: a survey of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 documents presented to patients at US hospitalsMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
Med Care 43:558-64. 2005..Federal regulation requires hospitals to present patients with a Notice of Privacy Practices (NPP) that contains all stipulated content items, is readable by patients, and posted on institutional web sites... - The prevalence of limited health literacyMichael K Paasche-Orlow
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:175-84. 2005..To systematically review U.S. studies examining the prevalence of limited health literacy and to synthesize these findings by evaluating demographic associations in pooled analyses... - The ethics of cultural competenceMichael Paasche-Orlow
Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, 91 East Concord Street, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Acad Med 79:347-50. 2004..Clarity about the ethics of cultural competence can help educators promote and evaluate trainees' integration of their own moral intuitions, Western medical ethics, and the ethics of cultural competence... - Health literacy not race predicts end-of-life care preferencesAngelo E Volandes
General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Palliat Med 11:754-62. 2008..Several studies have reported that African Americans are more likely than whites to prefer aggressive treatments at the end of life... - The communication patterns of internal medicine and family practice physiciansMichael Paasche-Orlow
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
J Am Board Fam Pract 16:485-93. 2003..Although differences between Internal Medicine (IM) and Family Practice (FP) physicians have been examined in terms of care outcomes and cost, there have been few studies of specialty differences in physician-patient communication... - Limited literacy and psychiatric disorders among users of an urban safety-net hospital's mental health outpatient clinicAlisa Lincoln
Department of Health Science, Northeastern University, 316 Robinson Hall, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 196:687-93. 2008..Increasing our understanding of the relationships between health literacy and psychiatric disorders will help inform the development of appropriate psychiatric care and better outcomes... - Factors associated with disclosure of medical errors by housestaffAndrea C Kronman
Boston University Medical Center, 801 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 470, Boston, MA 02118, USA
BMJ Qual Saf 21:271-8. 2012..We examined the relationship between residents' perceptions of their training environment and disclosure of or apology for their worst error... - Overcoming educational barriers for advance care planning in Latinos with video imagesAngelo E Volandes
General Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA
J Palliat Med 11:700-6. 2008..While this has been attributed to aspects of ethnicity, national origin, and religion, it is possible that limited education might obscure the true relationship between Latino patients and their end-of-life care preferences... - A telerehabilitation intervention for persons with spinal cord dysfunctionBethlyn Vergo Houlihan
Department of Health Policy and Management, Boston University School of Public Health, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Phys Med Rehabil 90:756-64. 2011..The results of a randomized controlled trial currently underway to evaluate Care Call will be available in 2011... - Excluding particular information from consent formsNeal Dickert
Department of Health Policy and Management, Phoebe R Berman Bioethics Institute, John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Hampton House 348, 624 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Account Res 12:33-45. 2005..Further, we argue that the regulations ought to be amended to reflect this obligation... - Confirming comprehension of informed consent as a protection of human subjectsJeremy Sugarman
J Gen Intern Med 21:898-9. 2006