Pilot Implementation of a Low-Literacy Zone Tool for Heart Failure Self-management
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Health literacy and self-care of patients with heart failure.
BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH OBJECTIVE Today's complex healthcare system relies heavily on sophisticated self-care regimens. To navigate the system and follow self-care protocols, patients must be able to understand and use health information, which requires health literacy. However, nearly 90 million Americans lack the necessary health literacy skills to adequately care for themselves in the face o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1539-0705,1522-2179
DOI: 10.1097/njh.0000000000000597