continUing EDuCAtiON Patient health literacy in the Community Pharmacy Setting
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چکیده
pon successful completion of this article, the pharmacist should be able to: 1. describe the status of literacy in the United States 2. define functional health literacy and its relationship to health outcomes. 3. describe how to assess low health literacy in community pharmacy patients. 4. address low health literacy in the community pharmacy setting through patient counseling. 5. address low health literacy in the community pharmacy setting through supplements to patient counseling.
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