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Methods Inf Med 2015; 54(04): 379-381
DOI: 10.3414/ME15-04-0003
DOI: 10.3414/ME15-04-0003
Letter to the Editor
Using an Automatic Tool to Identify Potential Readability Issues in a Large Sample of Medicinal Package Inserts[*]
Authors
Further Information
Publication History
received:
06 March 2015
accepted:
29 May 2015
Publication Date:
22 January 2018 (online)
* Supplementary online material published on our website www.methods-online.com
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