Assessing health literacy in renal failure and kidney transplant patients

Progress in Transplantation

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-54

  Escobedo, Wendy ^a   Weismuller, Penny ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; NURSING ASSESSMENT; READING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTILINGUALISM; NURSING ASSESSMENT; READING;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874754526     PISSN: 15269248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7182/pit2013473     Document Type: Article

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