Table 3:
Health Literacy – REALM-SF Compliance and Prevalence Data
Patients Admitted September 23 - October 20, 2014
| Compliance With Use of Tool | Prevalence of Health Literacy Levels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admitted (#) |
Screened (#) |
Screened (%) |
Adequate | Limited | Unable to Assess |
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| (%) | (%) | (%) | |||||||||
| General Medicine, South Wing | 149 | 129 | 87% | (83%) | (9%) | (8%) | |||||
| General Medicine, East Wing | 141 | 131 | 93% | (80%) | (14%) | (6%) | |||||
| General Medicine Teaching | 175 | 143 | 82% | (64%) | (32%) | (4%) | |||||
| Family Medicine | 224 | 202 | 90% | (68%) | (26%) | (6%) | |||||
| Cardiology | 149 | 137 | 92% | (82%) | (18%) | (0%) | |||||
| Surgery | 159 | 97 | 61% | (89%) | (9%) | (2%) | |||||
| Labor and Delivery | 201 | 189 | 94% | (95%) | (5%) | (0%) | |||||
| Orthopaedics | 132 | 110 | 83% | (89%) | (7%) | (4%) | |||||
| Urology | 125 | 82 | 66% | (88%) | (12%) | (0%) | |||||
| TOTAL | 1455 | 1220 | 84% | (81%) | (16%) | (3%) | |||||
Abbreviation: REALM-SF, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine-Short Form