Study examines link between health literacy and actionable memory for medication-taking
It is important for patients to understand the information they need for making health decisions, yet studies have shown that a large segment of the population lacks the health literacy to do so. Health literacy refers to capacity of people to obtain, process, and understand health information needed for making health decisions. A researcher in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is addressing this topic.
Many people have inadequate health literacy to support them in understanding health information and/or performing basic self-care activities. Successful self-care would lead to better health outcomes, especially for patients with chronic illness.
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Minority Patients Miss Out On Life-Saving Cystic Fibrosis Drugs Due to Genetic Test Limitations
There are many new drugs to treat cystic fibrosis, but non-white patients are effectively disqualified from receiving the latest precision medicines, accord to a new study. These drugs were approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for people with specific mutations, but non-white patients are more likely to carry different CF mutations. Because these other mutations aren’t included in genetic tests to qualify for the drugs, doctors cannot prescribe these new treatments for non-white patients, and insurance carriers won’t cover the cost.
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Compliance with a relaxed care bundle was associated with lower 30-day mortality and shorter median hospital stays among children with sepsis, according to interim data from the Improving Pediatric Sepsis Outcomes (IPSO) FACTO trial.
The relaxed, or liberalized, sepsis bundle i.e., a group of best evidence-based interventions involved delivering an initial fluid bolus within 60 minutes, as opposed to 20 minutes; and delivering antibiotics within 180 instead of 60 minutes. The bundle also involved accepted sepsis recognition protocols (screen, huddle, or care order).
The trial data, presented at the virtual Society of Critical Care Medicine s Critical Care Congress, involved approximately 40,000 patients with IPSO-confirmed critical and non-critical sepsis or suspected sepsis treated at children s hospitals across the U.S. from 2017 through 2019.
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It is important for patients to understand the information they need for making health decisions, yet studies have shown that a large segment of the population lacks the health literacy to do so. Health literacy refers to capacity of people to obtain, process, and understand health information needed for making health decisions. A researcher in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is addressing this topic. Many people have inadequate health literacy to support them in understanding health information and/or performing basic self-care activities, said Assistant Professor Jessie Chin. Successful self-care would lead to better health outcomes, especially for patients with chronic illness.