A QI initiative for bridging the health literacy gap by Educating internal medicine residents at a community hospital

• Main Authors: Ahsan Wahab (Author), Ahmad Ali (Author), Sarah Nazir (Author), Lisa Ochoa (Author), Hafiz Khan (Author), Mahin Khan (Author), Siddique Chaudhary (Author), Susan J. Smith (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: Only 12% of Americans have proficient health literacy (HL). Patients hide this fact from others including physicians. This quality improvement (QI) project was developed to compare internal medicine (IM) resident physicians' (RPs) ability to accurately predict patients with low HL...