Shared Decision Making in the Emergency Department among patients with Limited Health Literacy: Beyond Slower and Louder

Abstract

Health literacy is "the degree to which individuals can obtain, process and understand the basic health information needed to make appropriate health decisions and access health services needed to prevent or treat illness." The prevalence of limited health literacy (LHL) among adult ED patients is as high as 88%. Numeracy, or the "ability to understand and use numbers in daily life," is a continuum of skills that ranges from basic recognition and computation of numbers to understanding and use of high level skills such as probability, risk, and randomization.

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