Association of health literacy with postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.

Jesse P. Wright; Gretchen C. Edwards; Kathryn Goggins; Vikram Tiwari; Amelia Maiga; Kelvin Moses; Sunil Kripalani; Kamran Idrees

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Association of health literacy with postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery.

April 12, 2019

Wright JP, Edwards GC, Goggins K, et al. JAMA Surg. 2018;153(2):137-142.

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Patients' health literacy can have have profound safety implications. This retrospective study found that patients with low health literacy undergoing major abdominal surgery experienced a longer length of stay during the index hospitalization.

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