What is the purpose of the AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit?
The AHRQ Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit is designed to help health care professionals improve their patient communication practices to ensure that all patients can access and understand health care information. The toolkit provides guidance on how to use language that is clear and easy to understand, identify patient needs, provide patient-centered care, and incorporate health literacy best practices into daily practice. The toolkit also includes resources for assessing health literacy and implementing health literacy interventions.  