Measuring the Quality of Numeracy Skill Assessment in Health Domain

Healthcare represents a traditional personal service sector with established importance of patient numeracy profiles. This is of importance because patient numeracy skill is one of the key factors associated with poor understanding of treatment decisions and non-adherence to therapies. This paper aims to introduce a novel quality model for the evaluation of patient numeracy assessment methods. The new quality is used to compare numeracy assessment methods on a pilot study that helped us to establish the place of our previously published confidence-based numeracy assessment method C-PNA among the other numeracy assessment methods.