Medical textbooks: Can lay people read and understand them?

Library Trends

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 336-347

  Baker, Lynda M ^a   Gollop, Claudia J ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 13844299152     PISSN: 00242594     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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