Figures
- FIGURE 1.
Failure to close the interactive loop in clinician–patient communication. Based on audio-taped consultations, the results reflect the extent to which 38 physicians assessed recall and comprehension of newly introduced disease management concepts among 74 diabetic patients with low health literacy. Reproduced from [33] with permission from the publisher.
- FIGURE 2.
Quantity of short-acting β2-agonists (number of defined daily dosages (DDD)) dispensed to patients over 12 months. □: patients who underwent a disease education programme; ░: controls (no programme). Thick lines in box plots represent the median. Upper whiskers show the 75th–90th percentile; lower whiskers show the 10th–25th percentile. p = 0.03 with the Mann-Whitney U-test. n = 23, control group; n = 24, intervention group. Reproduced from [37] with permission from the publisher.
