Patients' memory for medical information

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 219-222

  Kessels, Roy P C ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BREAST CARCINOMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; DRIVING ABILITY; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL FUNCTION; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STRESS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING;

EID: 0037987980     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.96.5.219     Document Type: Review

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