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Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Most American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Online Patient Education Material Exceeds Average Patient Reading Level

Author: Seth S. Leopold, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 4/2015

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Title: Editor’s Spotlight/Take 5: Most American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons’ Online Patient Education Material Exceeds Average Patient Reading Level
Author: Seth S. Leopold, MD
Publication date: 01-04-2015
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 4/2015
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-015-4151-y

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