MedPage Today September 27, 2021
— Experts offer strategies for patients with disabilities, low health literacy
WASHINGTON — Telehealth visits should be made easier for people with disabilities, low health literacy, and other conditions that can make such visits challenging, argued speakers at an event sponsored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Roundtable on Health Literacy.
In a study of nearly 700 patients, including those with chronic comorbidities, kidney transplant recipients, and patients enrolled at academic medical centers or federally qualified health centers in Chicago, “patients with low and marginal health literacy compared to patients with adequate health literacy were less likely to have a video visit, more likely to have difficulty recalling what was discussed during the visit, less likely to...
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