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Health Literacy And Patient Reported Outcomes In Orthopaedic Surgery Patients, Thiran Udawatta, Lance Flesch, Michael Eng, Jane E. Oliphant, Scott G. Kaar
Health Literacy And Patient Reported Outcomes In Orthopaedic Surgery Patients, Thiran Udawatta, Lance Flesch, Michael Eng, Jane E. Oliphant, Scott G. Kaar
Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice
Background: Health literacy may be an important factor in patient health outcomes, however, prior research has primarily focused on primary care patients with research in orthopaedic specific populations lacking.
Questions/purposes: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between health literacy and patient reported outcomes in an orthopaedic patient population.
Patients and Methods: 183 patients >18 years of age who presented to our institution’s sports orthopaedic surgery clinic with shoulder or knee complaints were analyzed. The primary outcomes were physical function recorded using Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) physical function and Single Assessment Numerical Evaluation (SANE) scores. …