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The use of the Gunning Fog Index to evaluate the readability of Polish and English drug leaflets in the context of Health Literacy challenges in Medical Linguistics: An exploratory study
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Affiliations- First Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland
- The WSB University in Gdansk, Poland
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Vol 28, No 4 (2021)
Research letters — Clinical cardiology
Submitted: 2019-08-07
Accepted: 2020-02-17
Published online: 2020-10-27
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The use of the Gunning Fog Index to evaluate the readability of Polish and English drug leaflets in the context of Health Literacy challenges in Medical Linguistics: An exploratory study
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Cardiol J 2021;28(4):627-631.
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Damian Świeczkowski
Sławomir Kułacz
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