Stories - a novel approach to transfer complex health information to parents: A qualitative study

Arts and Health

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 162-173

  Scott, Shannon D ^a   Hartling, Lisa ^a   O'Leary, Kathy A ^a   Archibald, Mandy ^a   Klassen, Terry P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

croup; knowledge translation; narrative; qualitative; storytelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864742783     PISSN: 17533015     EISSN: 17533023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17533015.2012.656203     Document Type: Article

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