Do your patients understand?: How to write effective healthcare information

Orthopaedic Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-50

  Cutilli, Carolyn Crane ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORTHOPEDIC NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; STANDARD; TEACHING; WRITING;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; ORTHOPEDIC NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL; READING; TEACHING MATERIALS; WRITING;

EID: 33645748903     PISSN: 07446020     EISSN: 1542538X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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