Contingent or universal approaches to patient deficiencies in health numeracy

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 635-637

  Hamm, Robert M ^a   Bard, David E ^a   Hsieh, Elaine ^b   Stein, Howard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

HEALTH HAZARD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY;

COMMUNICATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35148830285     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X07307516     Document Type: Short Survey

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