The Association of Health Literacy with Illness and Medication Beliefs among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Minal S. Kale; Alex D. Federman; Katherine Krauskopf; Michael Wolf; Rachel O’Conor; Melissa Martynenko; Howard Leventhal; Juan P. Wisnivesky

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0123937

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The Association of Health Literacy with Illness and Medication Beliefs among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Minal S. Kale ,

* E-mail: minal.kale@mountsinai.org

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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Alex D. Federman,

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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Katherine Krauskopf,

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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Michael Wolf,

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Rachel O’Conor,

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Melissa Martynenko,

Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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Howard Leventhal,

Affiliation Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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Juan P. Wisnivesky

Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
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The Association of Health Literacy with Illness and Medication Beliefs among Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Minal S. Kale,
Alex D. Federman,
Katherine Krauskopf,
Michael Wolf,
Rachel O’Conor,
Melissa Martynenko,
Howard Leventhal,
Juan P. Wisnivesky

Published: April 27, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123937

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