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Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (679)

Published on in Vol 13, No 4 (2011): Oct-Dec

Beyond Readability: Investigating Coherence of Clinical Text for Consumers

Beyond Readability: Investigating Coherence of Clinical Text for Consumers

Beyond Readability: Investigating Coherence of Clinical Text for Consumers

Authors of this article:

Catherine Arnott Smith1 ;   Scott Hetzel2 ;   Prudence Dalrymple3 ;   Alla Keselman4
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