Health literacy and mortality: a cohort study of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure. | Vanderbilt Translational and Clinical Cardiovascular Research Center (VTRACC)

McNaughton CD, Cawthon C, Kripalani S, Liu D, Storrow AB, Roumie CL. Health literacy and mortality: a cohort study of patients hospitalized for acute heart failure. Journal of the American Heart Association. 2015 May;4(4). PMID: 25926328 [PubMed] PMCID: PMC4599411

Abstract

More than 30% of patients hospitalized for heart failure are rehospitalized or die within 90 days of discharge. Lower health literacy is associated with mortality among outpatients with chronic heart failure; little is known about this relationship after hospitalization for acute heart failure.