Vol 28, No 4 (2021)
Research Letter
Published online: 2020-10-27
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
Abstract
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