Do our patients understand? A comparison of understanding in adult inpatients and schoolchildren

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 1078, 1998, Pages 449-451

  Taylor, E M ^a   Ramsay, M P ^a   Bunton, L ^b  

^a Dunedin Hospital   (United States)

^b Mosgiel Intermediate School   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESUSCITATION; STUDENT;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COGNITION; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; INPATIENTS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION; RESUSCITATION; STUDENTS;

EID: 0032573304     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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