Featured Case Study: AHRQ-Funded Health Literacy Tool Improves Care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Patients in Spain

Grupo Saned, a health care and pharmaceutical marketing company in Barcelona, Spain, used an AHRQ-funded health literacy scale – Short Assessment of Health Literacy for Spanish-speaking Adults – to  study the capacity of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to obtain and understand information to make appropriate health decisions. The Spanish Society of Pulmonology and Thoracic Surgery is using study results to develop strategies to improve health literacy, including more patient training and dissemination of information to scientific societies. Read thecase study.