Do parents understand emergency department discharge instructions? A survey analysis

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 567-570

  Waisman, Yehezkel ^a,d   Siegal, Naomi ^c,d   Chemo, Michal ^a,d   Siegal, Gil ^b   Amir, Lisa ^a,d   Blachar, Yoram ^c,d   Mimouni, Marc ^a,d  

^a Schneider Children Med Ctr Israel   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Children; Education; Emergency department; Medical instructions

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

AUXILLIARY METHODS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GENDER; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; NURSE; PARENT; PARENTAL AGE; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; WRITING;

ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; DATA COLLECTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0042065474     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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