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ER patients don’t understand doc’s orders

 |  By HealthLeaders Media Staff  
   July 10, 2008

More than three in four emergency room patients do not fully understand the instructions that doctors give them after their visits, according to research published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. In addition, researchers found that the vast majority of patients are also unaware that they have not fully understood what the doctor has told them.

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