Employing immersive virtual environments for innovative experiments in health care communication

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 313-317

  Persky, Susan ^a  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Health care; Methods; Virtual environments; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CREATIVENESS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 79951959399     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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