Question 1

What are health literacy universal precautions?

Accepted Answer

Practices that make health information easier to understand for everyone.

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Special tools used by healthcare professionals.

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Ways to limit access to health information.

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A process for medical billing and coding.

Question 2

Why are health literacy universal precautions important?

Accepted Answer

To ensure that all patients can understand healthcare information and make informed decisions.

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To limit access to healthcare services.

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To make healthcare more complicated.

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To make healthcare more profitable.

Question 3

What are some examples of health literacy universal precautions?

Accepted Answer

Using plain language, offering patient education materials in different formats, and confirming patient understanding.

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Using humor, providing no education materials, and assuming patients will ask questions.

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Using medical jargon, providing complex instructions, and assuming patients understand.

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Providing only written instructions, using large medical terms, and speaking quickly.

Question 4

Who benefits from health literacy universal precautions?

Accepted Answer

All patients, regardless of their health literacy level.

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Only patients with low health literacy levels.

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Insurance companies.

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Healthcare providers.

Question 5

What can healthcare providers do to improve health literacy universal precautions?

Accepted Answer

Use teach-back methods and offer patient education materials in different formats.

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Assume patients will ask questions and provide no education materials.

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Speak faster and use complex medical jargon.

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Assume patients understand and provide no education materials.

Question 6

Why do healthcare providers need to use health literacy universal precautions?

Accepted Answer

Because patients often have different levels of health literacy and may not understand medical terminology.

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Because healthcare providers do not have time to provide patient education materials.

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Because healthcare providers assume patients understand medical terminology.

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Because patients are not interested in understanding healthcare information.

Question 7

What is plain language?

Accepted Answer

Simple, clear language that is easy to understand.

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A special language used only by healthcare providers.

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A language only understood by patients with high health literacy levels.

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Medical jargon and complex terminology.

Question 8

What is the goal of health literacy universal precautions?

Accepted Answer

To improve patient outcomes and reduce healthcare disparities.

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To limit access to healthcare services.

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To increase healthcare costs.

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To make healthcare more complicated.

Question 9

What is teach-back?

Accepted Answer

Asking patients to repeat back information in their own words.

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A method to confuse patients.

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A method to increase healthcare costs.

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A method to limit access to healthcare information.

Question 10

What is the purpose of offering patient education materials in different formats?

Accepted Answer

To accommodate different learning styles and abilities.

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To make healthcare more complicated.

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To increase healthcare costs.

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To limit access to healthcare information.

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