Classifying Patient's Health Literacy and Ability to Read Instructions

Purpose: To evaluate a patient's ability to read and comprehend health-related forms and instructions.

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Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient's ability to read and comprehend health-related forms and instruction?

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Health literacy

Vision

Language comprehension

Other cognitive factors

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Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Number of mild limitations

Number of significant limitations

The risk of the patient having a problem in comprehension is

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Clinical Diagnosis, Including Family History For Genetics
- Signs for Possible Low Health Literacy
Other Testing
- Patient Behaviors Indicating Low Literacy or Language Comprehension

Therapy

Selection
- Patient Behaviors Indicating Low Literacy or Language Comprehension
Prevention
- SMOG Readability Formula for Written Materials

Societal Concerns

Public Health

Objective

severity
prognosis
stage
public health

ICD-10

Z55.0 - Illiteracy and low-level literacy
Z55.8 - Other problems related to education and literacy

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Purpose: To evaluate a patient's ability to read and comprehend health-related forms and instructions.

Objective: severity, prognosis, stage, public health

ICD-10: Z55.0, Z55.8,

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