Can Patients Comprehend the Educational Materials that Hospitals Provide about Common IR Procedures?

Does self‐efficacy mediate the effect of oral health literacy on self‐rated oral health in an Indigenous population?

“…In the early emergence of health literacy being recognized as an important barrier to health care, the focus was on individual patients' literacy levels and ability to navigate health care systems . More recent health literacy literature places a stronger emphasis on the communication inter‐relationship between health care recipient and health care provider , particularly on communication skills of health care providers and information provided in the health care encounter .…”

Consent in Interventional Radiology—How Can We Make It Better?

“…20 Although many IR practices already have patient education materials, studies have found the majority are above patients' average reading level with limited readability scores. [38][39][40] Thus, there remains an opportunity to develop better multimedia patient decision aids in IR to help address the variability of patients' baseline understanding and what is shared with them. The authors have been working with a not-for-profit organization called The Interventional Initiative to create better patient decision aids for image-guided procedures vetted by diverse groups of IRs and patient groups.…”

Comprehension Level–Appropriate Patient Educational Content: An Opportunity for Interventional Radiologists to Create and Demonstrate Value

“…Such an effort can be facilitated and supported by SIR and/or health care organizations. However, the desired end result should be that every IR practitioner is able to direct his/her patient to content on the practice Web site that fills the critical information gap described in the work of Sadigh et al (1).…”