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Is Our Pharmacy Meeting Patients' Needs? A Pharmacy Health Literacy Assessment Tool User's Guide.

November 14, 2007

Jacobson KL, Gazmararian JA, Kripalani S, et al. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. October 2007. AHRQ Publication No. 07-0051.

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This AHRQ-funded publication provides a tool to help organizations identify health literacy issues, as well as methods for implementing an action plan drawn from assessment results.

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