Vanderbilt University, Division of Sponsored Research (Vanderbilt University, Eskind Biomedical Library)

The Vanderbilt University Medical Center and partner University Community Health Services, Inc., will test a patient’s ability to understand health information and his/her best way to learn, whether through seeing, reading, listening, or doing. They will then build an Internet-based tool that will use the results to automatically create information to give to patients about their illness that is more understandable and more likely to be followed. Content for this tool will be developed for two common conditions—high blood pressure and diabetes—and the tool will be tested and improved in two settings, a large university hospital emergency department and a community health clinic.