Citation
Fang, Gang; Bailey, Stacy Cooper; Annis, Izabela E.; Paasche-Orlow, Michael K.; Wolf, Michael S.; Martin, Laurie T.; Emch, Michael E.; Brookhart, M. Alan; & Farris, Karen B. (2020). Effects of Estimated Community-Level Health Literacy on Treatment Initiation and Preventive Care among Older Adults with Newly Diagnosed Diabetes. Patient Preference and Adherence, 14, 1-11. PMCID: PMC6954850Abstract
PURPOSE: Individual measures of health literacy are not feasible for administration on a large scale, yet estimates of community-level health literacy in the US recently became available. We sought to investigate whether community-level health literacy estimates are associated with the initiation of oral antihyperglycemic agents (OHA) and the use of standard preventive care services among older adults with newly diagnosed diabetes.PATIENTS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 169,758 patients,
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/ppa.S211784Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2020Journal Title
Patient Preference and AdherenceAuthor(s)
Fang, GangBailey, Stacy Cooper
Annis, Izabela E.
Paasche-Orlow, Michael K.
Wolf, Michael S.
Martin, Laurie T.
Emch, Michael E.
Brookhart, M. Alan
Farris, Karen B.