Personal paper: Risk language and dialects

BMJ

Volumn 315, Issue 7113, 1997, Pages 939-942

  Calman, Sir Kenneth C ^a   Royston, Geoff ^b  

^a Department of Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

DATA DISPLAY; MATHEMATICS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0030881210     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.315.7113.939     Document Type: Article

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