Glaucoma Patients With Poor Health Literacy May Have Greater Disease Progression
May 15th 2008Drug InformationEye Health
Glaucoma patients in urban areas who have poor health literacy appear to miss more appointments and to have worse disease understanding and greater disease progression than patients with adequate health literacy, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. “Health literacy, as a discrete form of literacy, is increasingly important in health care,” according to background information in the article. “The U.
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