The purpose of this pilot project is to implement health-literacy friendly interventions during patient education of the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) patient population that will increase the patient’s ability to self-manage their chronic illness. Low levels of health literacy can have a detrimental effect on a patient’s ability to navigate the complex healthcare system. Healthcare systems and providers must work to make healthcare more accessible to all the populations that they serve. This includes delivering patient education in a way that the patient can understand. Given that COPD is a deadly non-communicable disease, health-literacy friendly interventions should be used to improve patient outcomes. This pilot will look to merge both health literacy and the COPD patient population in a COPD health literacy educational toolkit.


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  • Henry Ford Hospital
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Report of calendar year 2021 activity.