A measure of a patient's ability to read, comprehend, and act on medical instructions is
1. Health literacy
2. Ethnicity
3. Medical training
4. Disparity
ANS: 1
A measure of a patient's ability to read, comprehend, and act on medical instructions is health literacy
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