The Association of Health Literacy with High-Quality Home Blood Pressure Monitoring for Hypertensive Patients in Outpatient Settings

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Searching strategies.

PubMed	MEDLINE	EMBASE
(1) (“Health literacy” [MeSH] OR; (2) “Patient education” as Topic [MeSH] OR; (3) “Health status disparities” [MeSH] OR; (4) “Educational status” [MeSH] OR; (5) “Health education” [MeSH]) AND; (6) Blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory [MeSH major topic]; (7) Limited to English language	(1) Home monitoring/or home care/; (2) Reading/or health education/or health literacy/; (3) Patient compliance/; (4) Education program/or interdisciplinary education/or education/or health education/or patient education; (5) Blood pressure monitoring, ambulatory; (6) Self-care/; (7) Educational status/; (8) Patient education as topic/; (9) “Reproducibility of results”/; (10) Essential hypertension/or White coat hypertension/or masked hypertension/or MEDLINE /; (11) 1 or 5 or 6; (12) 2 or 4 or 7 or 8; (13) 3 or 9; (14) 10 and 11 and 12 and 13; (15) Limit 14 to (English language and (MEDLINE or “PubMed not MEDLINE”))	(1) Blood pressure monitoring/; (2) Home monitoring/or home care/; (3) Self-monitoring/; (4) Reading/or health education/or health literacy/5. Health disparity/6. Patient compliance/; (7) Reproducibility/; (8) Essential hypertension/; (9) White coat hypertension/; (10) 1 or 2 or 3; (11) 8 or 9; (12) Education program/or interdisciplinary education/or health education/or patient education/; (13) 4 or 5 or 12; (14) 10 and 11 and 13; (15) Limit 14 to (English language and (EMBASE or MEDLINE))
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