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Lauren McCormack
Researcher at Research Triangle Park
Publications - 98
Citations - 3927
Lauren McCormack is an academic researcher from Research Triangle Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: Health literacy & Health care. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 95 publications receiving 3243 citations. Previous affiliations of Lauren McCormack include RTI International & Boston University.
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Health literacy: what is it?
TL;DR: A brief history of literacy in the United States is presented, followed by a discussion of the origins and conceptualization of health literacy, which suggests the need to review existing definitions of the term “health literacy.”
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Health Literacy Measurement: An Inventory and Descriptive Summary of 51 Instruments
Jolie N. Haun,Melissa A. Valerio,Lauren McCormack,Kristine Sørensen,Michael K. Paasche-Orlow +4 more
TL;DR: The health literacy measurement tools currently available generally represent a narrow set of conceptual dimensions with limited modes of administration and most of the tools lack information on key psychometric properties.
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Measuring patient-centered communication in cancer care: a literature review and the development of a systematic approach.
Lauren McCormack,Katherine Treiman,Douglas Rupert,Pamela Williams-Piehota,Eric Nadler,Neeraj Arora,William F. Lawrence,Richard L. Street +7 more
TL;DR: This study developed a comprehensive inventory of domains and subdomains for PCC by reviewing relevant literature and theories, interviewing a limited number of cancer patients, and consulting experts, and discusses considerations for developing PCC measures for research, quality assessment, and surveillance purposes.
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The health literacy skills framework.
TL;DR: The authors hope this conceptual framework can serve as a springboard for further discussion and advancement in operationalizing this complex construct and could be used to guide the development of interventions to improve health literacy.
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Implementing and evaluating shared decision making in oncology practice.
TL;DR: In this article, a review summarizes recent information regarding patient and physician factors that influence shared decision making for cancer care, outcomes resulting from successful SDM, and strategies for implementing SDM in oncology practice.