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ObjectivesThe objective was to determine whether patients with low health literacy have higher emergency department (ED) utilization and higher ED recidivism than patients with adequate health literacy.
MethodsThe study was conducted at an urban academic ED with more than 95,000 annual visits that is part of a 13‐hospital health system, using electronic records that are captured in a central data...