Patient Education and Counseling
Volume 78, Issue 3 , Pages 316-328 , March 2010

What constitutes evidence-based patient information? Overview of discussed criteria

  • Martina Bunge

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: University of Hamburg, Unit of Health Science and Education, Martin-Luther-King-Platz 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany. Tel.: +49 40 42838 7222; fax: +49 40 42838 3732.
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  • Ingrid Mühlhauser
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  • Anke Steckelberg

Received 30 April 2009 ,Revised 7 October 2009 ,Accepted 23 October 2009.

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