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SUBMITTER: Wright Nunes JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4489845 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wright Nunes Julie A JA Osborn Chandra Y CY Ikizler T Alp TA Cavanaugh Kerri L KL
Hemodialysis international. International Symposium on Home Hemodialysis 20141030 2
Health numeracy is linked to important clinical outcomes. Kidney disease management relies heavily on patient numeracy skills across the continuum of kidney disease care. Little data are available eliciting stakeholder perspectives from patients receiving dialysis about the construct of health numeracy. Using focus groups, we asked patients receiving hemodialysis open-ended questions to identify facilitators and barriers to their understanding, interpretation, and application of numeric informat ...[more]