Health Literacy Measures:

TOHFLA, S-TOFHLA

1:  Parker RM, Baker DW, Williams MV, Nurss JR.

The test of functional health literacy in adults: a new instrument for measuring patients' literacy skills.
J Gen Intern Med. 1995 Oct;10(10):537-41.
PMID: 8576769 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2:  Baker DW, Williams MV, Parker RM, Gazmararian JA, Nurss J.

Development of a brief test to measure functional health literacy.
Patient Educ Couns. 1999 Sep;38(1):33-42.
PMID: 14528569 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3:  Chew LD, Griffin JM, Partin MR, Noorbaloochi S, Grill JP, Snyder A, Bradley KA, Nugent SM, Baines AD, Vanryn M.

Validation of Screening Questions for Limited Health Literacy in a Large VA Outpatient Population.
J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Mar 12; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 18335281 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

REALM

1:  Davis TC, Crouch MA, Long SW, Jackson RH, Bates P, George RB, Bairnsfather LE.

Rapid assessment of literacy levels of adult primary care patients.
Fam Med. 1991 Aug;23(6):433-5.
PMID: 1936717 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2:  Davis TC, Long SW, Jackson RH, Mayeaux EJ, George RB, Murphy PW, Crouch MA.

Rapid estimate of adult literacy in medicine: a shortened screening instrument.
Fam Med. 1993 Jun;25(6):391-5.
PMID: 8349060 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

3:  Chew LD, Griffin JM, Partin MR, Noorbaloochi S, Grill JP, Snyder A, Bradley KA, Nugent SM, Baines AD, Vanryn M.

Validation of Screening Questions for Limited Health Literacy in a Large VA Outpatient Population.
J Gen Intern Med. 2008 Mar 12; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 18335281 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

NVS

1:  Weiss BD, Mays MZ, Martz W, Castro KM, DeWalt DA, Pignone MP, Mockbee J, Hale FA.

Quick assessment of literacy in primary care: the newest vital sign.
Ann Fam Med. 2005 Nov-Dec;3(6):514-22. Erratum in: Ann Fam Med. 2006 Jan-Feb;4(1):83.
PMID: 16338915 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

2:  Osborn CY, Weiss BD, Davis TC, Skripkauskas S, Rodrigue C, Bass PF, Wolf MS.

Measuring adult literacy in health care: performance of the newest vital sign.
Am J Health Behav. 2007 Sep-Oct;31 Suppl 1:S36-46.
PMID: 17931135 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]