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Functional Health Literacy and the Risk of Hospital Admission Among Medicare Managed Care Enrollees

David W. Baker, MD, MPH, Julie A. Gazmararian, PhD, MPH, Mark V. Williams, MD, Tracy Scott, PhD, Ruth M. Parker, MD, Diane Green, PhD, Junling Ren, MEd and Jennifer Peel, MPH

David W. Baker is with the Center for Health Care Research and Policy and the Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center; and the Department of Epidemiology–Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio. Julie A. Gazmararian, Tracy Scott, Diane Green, Junling Ren, and Jennifer Peel are with US Quality Algorithms Center for Health Care Research, Atlanta, Ga. Mark V. Williams and Ruth M. Parker are with the Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.



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  		FIGURE 1 —Percentage of study participants hospitalized once (black) or 2 or more times (white), by functional health literacy.

 


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  		FIGURE 2 —Cumulative rate of hospitalization from time of enrollment for study participants, by functional health literacy.

 




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