Medical clowns at hospitals and their effect on hospitalized children

Harefuah

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 30-32

  Bornstein, Yossi ^a  

^a LESLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD HOSPITALIZATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HUMOR; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

CHILD; CHILD, HOSPITALIZED; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 42949162629     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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