Bring the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Health Literacy Precautions to Life in Your Practice

Overview:

This is a 60-minute recording of a live webinar.

The purpose of this presentation is to inform and engage participants about health literacy. The presentation will increase understanding of health literacy, the importance of a health literate organization and how to implement specific tools of the Agency for Health and Research Quality (AHRQ) Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit. The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit is considered to be a comprehensive coordinated program that supports education of health literacy at the organizational level. The compilation of tools are for any practice to implement when they assume that all patients many have some difficulty with health information and access to services. By using universal tools the system is easier to navigate and miscommunication is minimized. The toolkit provides evidence-based guidance that ensures a health care practice provides better understanding by all patients not just those we think need extra assistance. By building health literacy into all areas of a health care practice we provide improved odds of patients having successful health outcomes.