Understanding and mitigating low health literacy

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Learn what strategies and techniques can be used to mitigate low health literacy among patients and service users.

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Registered nurse

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Authors

Dominique Byrne

Senior staff nurse, critical care, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Portsmouth, England. The author would like to thank Rebecca Howes, clinical librarian at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, for the support and information provided.

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