Emergency Department Discharge Instructions: Lessons Learned through Developing New Patient Education Materials
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Emergency Department Discharge Instructions: Lessons Learned through Developing New Patient Education Materials
Our multidisciplinary team developed a new set of discharge instructions for five common emergency department diagnoses using recommended tools for creating literacy-appropriate and patient-centered education materials. We found that the recommended tools for document creation were essential in constructing the new instructions. However, while the tools were necessary, they were not sufficient....
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine International
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2090-2840,2090-2859
DOI: 10.1155/2012/306859