Brief reportThe impact of low health literacy on surgical practice
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Acknowledgements
This study was funded and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and Department of Veterans Affairs. The authors thank the patients and clinical staff of the VA Puget Sound Outpatient Evaluation Center for their participation and support. They also thank Leticia Lew, Alan Zander, John Amory, M.D., and Margaret Mitchell for their invaluable contributions, and Soo Borson, M.D., for allowing them to use the Mini-Cog in their study.
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