NIH R01 · 2025
Adapting Enhanced Recovery Programs (ERPs) through Health Literacy to Eliminate Surgical Disparities
PROJECT SUMMARY Rationale: Low health literacy affects over a third of surgical populations and is associated with significantly worse outcomes in surgery. Interventions that reduce disparities in this large population are urgently needed. Our team has previously shown that enhanced recovery programs (ERPs) mitigate racial disparities in surgical outcomes and offer a pragmatic way to address surgical disparities. Existing ERPs, however, work poorly for patients with low health literacy who still experience worse outcomes. This gap arises from the lack of fit between current ERPs and the needs of low health literacy patients. Through a K23, our team assessed these needs and developed a novel…
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