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List of works by Darren A. DeWalt

"Teach to goal": theory and design principles of an intervention to improve heart failure self-management skills of patients with low health literacy

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A comparison of lipid and lipoprotein measurements in the fasting and nonfasting states in patients with type 2 diabetes

scientific article published in November 2007

A failure to communicate: a qualitative exploration of care coordination between hospitalists and primary care providers around patient hospitalizations

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A heart failure self-management program for patients of all literacy levels: a randomized, controlled trial [ISRCTN11535170].

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A multicomponent quality improvement intervention to improve blood pressure and reduce racial disparities in rural primary care practices

scientific article published on 25 November 2016

A primary care, multi-disciplinary disease management program for opioid-treated patients with chronic non-cancer pain and a high burden of psychiatric comorbidity

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A randomized trial of a primary care-based disease management program to improve cardiovascular risk factors and glycated hemoglobin levels in patients with diabetes

scientific article (publication date: March 2005)

A single-item self-report medication adherence question predicts hospitalisation and death in patients with heart failure

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Addressing literacy and numeracy to improve diabetes care: two randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 09 September 2009

Are children with asthma overconfident that they are using their inhalers correctly?

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Assessing Literacy in Clinical and Community Settings: The Patient Perspective

scientific article published on 01 February 2011

Association of numeracy and diabetes control

scientific article published in May 2008

Associations between low literacy and health status measures: cross-sectional analyses of two physical activity trials.

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Cancer Care Delivery Research: Building the Evidence Base to Support Practice Change in Community Oncology

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Caregivers' health literacy and gaps in children's Medicaid enrollment: findings from the Carolina Oral Health Literacy Study

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Clinic-based versus outsourced implementation of a diabetes health literacy intervention

scientific article published on 04 September 2013

Cognitive interviewing in the evaluation of fatigue items: results from the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS)

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Cognitive interviewing methodology in the development of a pediatric item bank: a patient reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) study

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Comparison of a one-time educational intervention to a teach-to-goal educational intervention for self-management of heart failure: design of a randomized controlled trial

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Comparison of brief health literacy screens in the emergency department

scientific article published on 25 March 2015

Construction of the Pediatric Asthma Impact Scale (PAIS) for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS).

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Construction of the eight-item patient-reported outcomes measurement information system pediatric physical function scales: built using item response theory ⬇️

scientific article published on February 2, 2011

Content validity in the PROMIS social-health domain: a qualitative analysis of focus-group data

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Correlation of PROMIS scales and clinical measures among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with and without exacerbations

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Designing a large-scale multilevel improvement initiative: The improving performance in practice program * ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2010

Developing and testing the health literacy universal precautions toolkit.

scientific article published on March 2011

Development and pilot testing of a disease management program for low literacy patients with heart failure

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Development and validation of the Diabetes Numeracy Test (DNT)

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Development and validation of the Proxy-Reported Pulmonary Outcomes Scale for premature infants.

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Development of a proxy-reported pulmonary outcome scale for preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia.

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Diabetes Implementation of a Self-management Program in Resource Poor and Rural Community Clinics

scientific article published on 11 February 2012

Disease-related distress, self-care and clinical outcomes among low-income patients with diabetes

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Ensuring Safe and Effective Use of Medication and Health Care

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Estimating minimally important difference (MID) in PROMIS pediatric measures using the scale-judgment method

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Evaluation of the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system in a large cohort of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases.

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Family member accompaniment to routine medical visits is associated with better self-care in heart failure patients

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Feasibility and acceptability of the patient-reported outcomes measurement information system measures in children and adolescents in active cancer treatment and survivorship.

scientific article published on January 2014

Gaining the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) perspective in chronic kidney disease: a Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium study.

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Getting hip to vitamin D: a hospitalist project for improving the assessment and treatment of vitamin D deficiency in elderly patients with hip fracture.

scientific article published on 05 September 2014

Health Literacy Mediates the Relationship Between Age and Health Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure

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Health Literacy and Diabetic Control

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Implementation Science Workshop: primary care-based multidisciplinary readmission prevention program

scientific article published on May 2014

Influence of caregivers and children's entry into the dental care system

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Influence of patient literacy on the effectiveness of a primary care-based diabetes disease management program

scientific article published in October 2004

Interventions to improve health outcomes for patients with low literacy. A systematic review

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Is adherence to weight monitoring or weight-based diuretic self-adjustment associated with fewer heart failure-related emergency department visits or hospitalizations?

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Is this child dehydrated?

scientific article published in June 2004

Item response theory detected differential item functioning between healthy and ill children in quality-of-life measures.

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Item-level informant discrepancies between children and their parents on the PROMIS(®) pediatric scales.

scientific article published on 06 January 2015

Learning Systems at Scale: Where Policy Meets Practice

scientific article published in November 2015

Left behind: ensuring clarity and completeness of our educational materials and messages

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Linkage between the PROMIS® pediatric and adult emotional distress measures.

scientific article published on 30 September 2015

Literacy and health outcomes: a systematic review of the literature

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Literacy and health outcomes: is adherence the missing link?

scientific article published on August 2006

Lost in Translation: Are We Reaching the Target Audience with Internet-based Education Materials?

scientific article published on 01 April 2013

Low literacy is associated with increased risk of hospitalization and death among individuals with heart failure

scientific article published on 12 March 2013

Low parental literacy is associated with worse asthma care measures in children

scientific article published on January 2007

Material need insecurities, control of diabetes mellitus, and use of health care resources: results of the Measuring Economic Insecurity in Diabetes study.

scientific article published on February 2015

Material need support interventions for diabetes prevention and control: a systematic review

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Mode effects between computer self-administration and telephone interviewer-administration of the PROMIS(®) pediatric measures, self- and proxy report

scientific article published on 02 January 2016

More extensive implementation of the chronic care model is associated with better lipid control in diabetes.

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Multisite randomized trial of a single-session versus multisession literacy-sensitive self-care intervention for patients with heart failure

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PROMIS Pediatric Anger Scale: an item response theory analysis.

scientific article published on 22 July 2011

PROMIS Pediatric Pain Interference Scale: an item response theory analysis of the pediatric pain item bank

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PROMIS Pediatric Peer Relationships Scale: development of a peer relationships item bank as part of social health measurement

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PROMIS pediatric measures in pediatric oncology: valid and clinically feasible indicators of patient-reported outcomes

scientific article published on 24 July 2012

PROMIS(®) pediatric self-report scales distinguish subgroups of children within and across six common pediatric chronic health conditions

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PROMIS® Parent Proxy Report Scales: an item response theory analysis of the parent proxy report item banks

scientific article published on 05 October 2011

Parents With Low Literacy Report Higher Quality of Parent-Provider Relationships in a Residency Clinic

scientific article published on 01 January 2007

Patient and practice perspectives on strategies for controlling blood pressure, North Carolina, 2010-2012.

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Patterns of care for clinically distinct segments of high cost Medicare beneficiaries.

scientific article published on October 2015

Patterns of symptoms and functional impairments in children with cancer

scientific article published on 15 March 2014

Personal disaster preparedness of dialysis patients in North Carolina.

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Predictors of opioid misuse in patients with chronic pain: a prospective cohort study

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Promising insights into the health related quality of life for children with severe obesity

scientific article published on March 2013

Psychometric properties of the PROMIS ® pediatric scales: precision, stability, and comparison of different scoring and administration options

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Quality Improvement Strategies for Type 2 Diabetes

scientific article published in The Journal of the American Medical Association

Quick assessment of literacy in primary care: the newest vital sign

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Reading Is Fundamental

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Relationship between literacy, knowledge, self-care behaviors, and heart failure-related quality of life among patients with heart failure

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Sampling plan and patient characteristics of the PROMIS pediatrics large-scale survey.

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Satisfaction with electronic health records is associated with job satisfaction among primary care physicians

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Screening for Low Literacy in a Rheumatology Setting

scientific article published on 01 December 2010

Self-care confidence mediates the relationship between perceived social support and self-care maintenance in adults with heart failure

scientific article published on March 2013

Single-item or two-item literacy screener to predict the S-TOFHLA among adult hemodialysis patients

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The Heart Healthy Lenoir project--an intervention to reduce disparities in hypertension control: study protocol

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The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) developed and tested its first wave of adult self-reported health outcome item banks: 2005–2008 ⬇️

scientific article published on August 4, 2010

The Spoken Knowledge in Low Literacy in Diabetes scale: a diabetes knowledge scale for vulnerable patients

scientific article published in March 2005

The association of health literacy and blood pressure reduction in a cohort of patients with hypertension: The heart healthy lenoir trial

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

The effect of progressive, reinforcing telephone education and counseling versus brief educational intervention on knowledge, self-care behaviors and heart failure symptoms

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The impact of disease duration on quality of life in children with nephrotic syndrome: a Midwest Pediatric Nephrology Consortium study

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The influence of literacy on patient-reported experiences of diabetes self-management support

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The relationship between literacy and glycemic control in a diabetes disease-management program

scientific article published in March 2004

The relationships between asthma control, daytime sleepiness, and quality of life among children with asthma: a path analysis

scientific article published on 16 May 2013

The role of helplessness, outcome expectation for exercise and literacy in predicting disability and symptoms in older adults with arthritis.

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The use of focus groups in the development of the PROMIS pediatrics item bank

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Transitional care cut hospital readmissions for North Carolina Medicaid patients with complex chronic conditions.

scientific article published on August 2013

Upper-extremity and mobility subdomains from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) adult physical functioning item bank

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Use of Serum Electrolyte Panels in Gastroenteritis

scientific article published on 01 April 2005

Use of patient flow analysis to improve patient visit efficiency by decreasing wait time in a primary care-based disease management programs for anticoagulation and chronic pain: a quality improvement study

scientific article published on 15 January 2007

Using the PedsQL™ 3.0 asthma module to obtain scores comparable with those of the PROMIS pediatric asthma impact scale (PAIS).

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Who needs inpatient detox? Development and implementation of a hospitalist protocol for the evaluation of patients for alcohol detoxification.

scientific article published on 07 January 2014

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