The readability of currently used surgical/procedure consent forms in the United States.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Surgery

• Publication date

  1998-05-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1067/MSY.1998.87236PMID 9591001
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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