Health Literacy

Contains a variety of resources for health literacy resources for healthcare providers.

This site provides pharmacists with recently released health literacy tools and other resources from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

The CAHPS Item Set for Addressing Health Literacy's goal is to measure, from the patients' perspective, how well health information is communicated to them by health care professionals.

The CDC Clear Communication Index (Index) is a research-based tool to help you develop and assess public communication materials.

Contains the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (short form) in both English and Spanish.

This toolkit offered by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers primary care practices ways to assess their services for literacy consideration, raise staff awareness, and address specific areas.

Users can use this site by the AHRQ to create a pillcard.

Toolkits designed to help health care institutions provide safe, quality healthcare. Toolkits include: hospital emergency department, hospital care unit, outpatient settings, consumer/patient care, handoffs, discharge, medication safety, communication, and others.

The page provides a training program for pharmacy staff to assist them in improving communication with patients.