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Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ


Overview of Items Tested

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  • Language Access (10 items): Use and rating of interpreters, discrimination by language
  • Patient-Doctor Communication (10 items): Health and mental counseling, use of complementary/alternative medicine
  • Shared Decision Making (7 items): Alternatives, preferences, values
  • Discrimination (12 items)*: Insurance, race/ethnicity, language, source, how knew
  • Trust (7 items): truth-telling, caring, level of trust, rating, cared for you as a person
  • Health Literacy (41 items):** Tools; problems/concerns; self-management; medicines; forms; test results; navigation

* One of these items is added to the language access
**Separate project focused on this domain


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