Patient education pamphlets about prevention, detection, and treatment of breast cancer for low literacy women

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 185-189

  Glazer, Hilda R ^a   Kirk, Lynne M ^a   Bosler, Fay E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mammography compliance; Patient education; Readability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAMMOGRAPHY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029876851     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0738-3991(95)00834-9     Document Type: Article

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