Tulsky, Ubel Author Article on Health Literacy and Cancer Care

 

Peter Ubel

Peter Ubel, MD

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James Tulsky, MD

James A. Tulsky, MD, and Peter Ubel, MD, are two authors of a new study in Journal of Oncology Practice examining the role of cost-related health literacy in patients’ access to high-quality cancer care. Published with co-authors S. Yousuf Zafar, MD, MHS, and Katyhryn Pollak, PhD, this study describes how rising health care costs, coupled with low health literacy, cause negative health outcomes and prevent people from getting high-quality cancer care. The full article, Cost-Related Health Literacy: A Key Component of High-Quality Cancer Care, is available online.