Study reveals lower health literacy increases complications in breast reconstruction, suggesting enhanced patient education is crucial.
In this study lower health literacy was significantly associated with increased health system utilization and wound complications in patients with severe comorbidity burden. This highlights the complex relationship between health literacy and outcomes, and importance of patient education and shared decision making in autologous breast reconstruction.
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