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Health Literacy and Heart Failure Care in Minority Communities
- Paul L. Hebert, PhD; and
- Jane E. Sisk, PhD
- From Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, and the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, Maryland.
IN RESPONSE:
We appreciate Drs. Pignone and DeWalt's comments. In our trial, we measured patients' health literacy, however, not general literacy. These concepts differ considerably. In preliminary analyses, we found no evidence that low health literacy was correlated with the effectiveness of nurse management in terms of either of the primary outcomes of physical functioning or all-cause hospitalization. Specifically, we measured physical function by using the Short Form-12 (SF-12) physical …
