Communicating about Health Care: Observations from Persons Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Iezzoni, Lisa I ^a   O'Day, Bonnie L ^b   Killeen, Mary ^b   Harker, Heather ^b  

^a Sterile Product Compounding Unit   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1442332615     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-140-5-200403020-00011     Document Type: Article

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