Leveraging Health Literacy and Patient Preferences to Reduce Hypoglycemic Events in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

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Resources:

• Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy to Improve Diabetes Education and Care
• Adult Carb Quiz
• Adult Carb Quiz - Answer Key
• America's Health Literacy: Why We Need Accessible Health Information
• Communicating Health Risks with Visual Aids
• Development and Validation of the Diabetes Numeracy Test (DNT)
• Emergency Hospitalizations for Adverse Drug Events in Older Americans
• Exhaustion of Food Budgets at Month's End and Hospital Admissions for Hypoglycemia
• Facilitating Behavior Change With Low-literacy Patient Education Materials
• Hypoglycemia and Cardiovascular Risks
• Low Health Literacy: Overview, Assessment, and Steps Toward Providing High-Quality Diabetes Care
• Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center's Revised Diabetes Knowledge Test
• National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2017 Estimates of Diabetes and Its Burden in the United States
• Prevalence and Incidence of Hypoglycaemia in 532,542 People with Type 2 Diabetes on Oral Therapies and Insulin: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Population Based Studies
• Risk of Hypoglycemia in Older Veterans with Dementia and Cognitive Impairment: Implications for Practice and Policy
• Severe Hypoglycemia Symptoms, Antecedent Behaviors, Immediate Consequences and Association with Glycemia Mediation Usage: Secondary Analysis of the ACCORD Clinical Trial Data
• The A1C Test & Diabetes
• The DNT15
• The SKILLD Knowledge Assessment Scale
• The Spoken Knowledge in Low Literacy in Diabetes Scale
• Validating the AdultCarbQuiz: A Test of Carbohydrate-Counting Knowledge for Adults With Diabetes
• Validation of the Revised Brief Diabetes Knowledge Test (DKT2)