Readability and cultural sensitivity of web-based patient decision aids for cancer screening and treatment: A systematic review

Medical Informatics and the Internet in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 263-286

  Thomson, M D ^a   Hoffman Goetz, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cultural sensitivity; Decision aids; Internet; Literacy

Indexed keywords

AUDIO RECORDING; CANCER SCREENING; CHECKLIST; CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; MEDLINE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PROBABILITY; READING; REFERENCE DATABASE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; VIDEORECORDING; VISUAL AID; COMPREHENSION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEOPLASM; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION;

COMPREHENSION; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC;

EID: 80051886616     PISSN: 14639238     EISSN: 14645246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14639230701780408     Document Type: Review

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