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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2014 Feb;40(2):68–76. doi: 10.1016/s1553-7250(14)40008-4

Table 4.

Agreement Between Nurse-Administered and RA-Administered BHLS Scores, Overall and by Category*

Overall Outpatient Agreement % (95% CI) Outpatient Agreement by Category % (95% CI) Overall Inpatient Agreement % (95% CI) Inpatient Agreement by Category % (95% CI)
Confident with forms 72.7 (67.4, 77.5) 95.3 (92.2, 97.2) 47.9 (43.5, 52.3) 74.3 (70.3, 78.0)
Help reading 78.8 (73.9, 83.1) 89.9 (86.0, 92.9) 47.1 (42.8, 51.5) 68.3 (64.1, 72.3)
Problems learning 73.2 (67.9, 77.9) 86.9 (82.6, 90.3) 47.9 (43.5, 52.3) 69.5 (65.4, 73.4)
*

Agreement by category shows the % agreement when responses are dichotomized to low health literacy vs. adequate health literacy.