The New England Journal of Medicine
e-mail icon  FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |    Advanced Search
Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe
 
Correction to Marcus, N Engl J Med 355(4):339-341 July 27, 2006.

Correction
PreviousPrevious
Volume 355:1076 September 7, 2006 Number 10
NextNext

The Silent Epidemic — The Health Effects of Illiteracy

Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100% of the full text and any section headings.

 Sign up for free e-toc
 

This Article
-Full Text
- PDF
-PDA Full Text

Tools and Services
-Add to Personal Archive
-Add to Citation Manager
-Notify a Friend
-E-mail When Cited
-E-mail When Letters Appear

More Information
-Related Article
by Marcus, E. N.
The Silent Epidemic — The Health Effects of Illiteracy . In the third column of page 340, the second sentence of the second full paragraph should have read, "In one study, more than two thirds of patients with low literacy in one public hospital said they had never told their spouses about it," not "in public hospitals," as printed.



HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org

Comments and questions? Please contact us.

The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2008 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.