Readability of urologic pathology reports: The need for patient-centered approaches

Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1091-1094

  Mossanen, Matthew ^a   Calvert, Joshua K ^a   Wright, Jonathan L ^a   True, Lawrence D ^b   Lin, Daniel W ^a   Gore, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Pathology report; Patient centered outcomes research; Readability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CANCER; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; ORCHIECTOMY; PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATECTOMY; TESTIS CANCER; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; ULTRASOUND GUIDED PROSTATE NEEDLE BIOPSY; URINARY TRACT CANCER; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; UROLOGY;

HUMANS; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PROGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS; UROLOGY;

EID: 84925851404     PISSN: 10781439     EISSN: 18732496     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urolonc.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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