Health Literacy Predicts the Discrepancy Between Patient and Provider Global Assessments of Rheumatoid Arthritis Activity at a Public Urban Rheumatology Clinic
- 15 March 2010
- journal article
- Published by The Journal of Rheumatology in The Journal of Rheumatology
- Vol. 37 (5), 961-966
- https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.090964
Abstract
Objective. Numerous studies report that significant discordance exists between patient and provider [physician] measures of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We examined whether health literacy explains this discordance.Keywords
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