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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Healthc Qual. 2018 Sep-Oct;40(5):247–255. doi: 10.1097/JHQ.0000000000000116

Table 2:

Health Literacy – REALM-SF Demographic Data

Patients Admitted September 23 - October 20, 2014

n %
Number of Patients 1455
Ethnicity
 Hispanic 65 5%
 Not Hispanic 1371 94%
 Other 19 1%
Race
 Asian 12 1%
 Black 382 26%
 White 970 67%
 Other 91 6%
Gender
 Female 895 62%
 Male 560 38%
Age
 18–30 255 18%
 31–50 333 23%
 51–70 572 39%
 71 + 295 20%
Payer
 Commercial 238 16%
 Managed Care 98 7%
 Medicaid & Medicaid HMO 318 22%
 Medicare & Medicare HMO 652 45%
 Self Pay 118 8%
 Other 31 2%

Abbreviation: REALM-SF, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine-Short From