Meeting patient needs in the hospital setting - Are written nutrition education resources too hard to understand?

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 216-221

  Perkins, Louise ^a,b   Cohen, Jennifer ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Education; Nutrition; Readability; Written resource

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249121173     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2008.00273.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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