Health Literacy and Patient Safety Podcast

AHRQ's Web M&M features an interview with AHRQ grantee Dean Schillinger on health literacy and patient safety. Dean Schillinger, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, and Chief of the California Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. Topics covered in this Podcast include:

• The potential for adverse events due to health literacy challenges,
• Interventions such as teach-back,
• Informed consent, and
• Health literacy measurement.

You can access this month's Persepctives on Safety Podcast and transcript at: http://webmm.ahrq.gov/perspective.aspx?perspectiveID=71

Also in this issue of AHRQ's Web M&M is a commentary by AHRQ grantee Michael Wolf and Stacey Cooper Bailey, "The Role in Health Literacy in Patient Safety." You'll find it at: http://webmm.ahrq.gov/perspective.aspx?perspectiveID=72

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