What your patient reads: Creating a value-added tool for physicians

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-220

  Shaw Daigle, Christine ^a,b   Giles Smith, Lori ^a,c   Raynard, Melissa ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ST BONIFACE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c Grace Hospital Winnipeg   (Canada)

^d Interlake Eastern Regional Healthy Authority   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer health; Health librarianship; Information service; Media; Patient physician relationship

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS MEDIUM; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; READING;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MANITOBA; MASS MEDIA; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; READING;

EID: 79960930167     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: 15409597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02763869.2011.590410     Document Type: Article

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