Use of a Low-Literacy Patient Education Tool to Enhance Pneumococcal Vaccination Rates: A Randomized Controlled Trial

CONTEXT Pneumococcal immunization rates for elderly and high-risk patients are only one third to one half the target rate of 60% established by the US Public Health Service. Limited or marginal literacy, which affects nearly 100 million Americans, especially the elderly, may contribute to these low...

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Veröffentlicht in:	JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 1999-08, Vol.282 (7), p.646-650
Hauptverfasser:	Jacobson, Terry A, Thomas, Donna M, Morton, Felicia James, Offutt, Gardiner, Shevlin, Jennifer, Ray, Susan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Bacterial Vaccines - administration & dosage Biological and medical sciences Educational Status Female Humans Logistic Models Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Multivariate Analysis Patient Education as Topic Physician-Patient Relations Pneumococcal Infections - prevention & control Prevention and actions Public health. Hygiene Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine Socioeconomic Factors Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...) Streptococcus pneumoniae Streptococcus pneumoniae - immunology Vaccination - statistics & numerical data
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