The take-home message: Patients prefer consultation audiotapes to summary letters

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 1305-1311

  Tattersall, Martin H N ^a   Butow, Phyllis N ^b   Griffin, Anne Marie ^b   Dunn, Stewart M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CANCER PATIENT; CONSULTATION; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0028277274     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.1994.12.6.1305     Document Type: Article

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