Prenatal education: Quality materials empower patients to improve outcomes

Inside Case Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1-7

  Smith, Sandra ^b   Carey, Betty ^a  

^a Health Education and Research ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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