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Xu-Hao Zhang1, Julian Thumboo, Kok-Yong Fong

  • 11 Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, Singapore 2 Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore 3 Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 4 Discipline of Pharmacy & Experimental Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, New South Wales, Australia.

The Patient
|January 26, 2012
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Summary

A new 21-item functional health literacy test (FHLT) effectively screens general public and patient literacy. This reliable and valid tool supports health education programs and improves health outcomes.

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