Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 9-16 , January 2010

Health Literacy and the Patient With Heart Failure—Implications for Patient Care and Research: A Consensus Statement of the Heart Failure Society of America

  • Lorraine S. Evangelista, RN, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lorraine S. Evangelista, RN, PhD, UCLA School of Nursing, 700 Tiverton, Factor Building, Los Angeles, CA 90095-6918. Tel: 310-825-8609; Fax: 310-794-7482.
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  • Kismet D. Rasmusson, MSN, FNP

      Affiliations

    • Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
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  • Ann S. Laramee, APRN, MS

      Affiliations

    • Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont
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  • Joan Barr, MSN, ANP-BC

      Affiliations

    • Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Indiana
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  • Susan E. Ammon, RN, MS, FNP

      Affiliations

    • San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, San Francisco, California
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  • Sandra Dunbar, RN, DSN

      Affiliations

    • Emory University School of Nursing, Atlanta, Georgia
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  • Susan Ziesche, RN

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiology Research Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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  • J. Herbert Patterson, PharmD

      Affiliations

    • University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Clyde W. Yancy, MD

      Affiliations

    • Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas

Received 26 May 2009 ,Revised 22 October 2009 ,Accepted 30 October 2009.

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 Disclosures are on file with the Heart Failure Society of America as a condition of participation on this health literacy task force. The disclosures are updated annually.

PII: S1071-9164(09)01147-6

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.10.026

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 1 , Pages 9-16 , January 2010

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