Communicating probabilistic information to cancer patients: Is there ‘noise’ on the line?
- 31 December 1991
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Elsevier in Social Science & Medicine
- Vol. 32 (6) , 725-731
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(91)90152-3
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