Outpatient Education: An Overlooked Concern in Iran

Document Type : Letter to editor

Authors

Mostafa Rad ¹

Kazem Hassanpour ²

Nematullah Shomoossi ³

¹ Department of Nursing, Nursing and Midwifery School, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

² Department of Pediatric, School of Medicine, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

³ School of Medicine, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran

Keywords

Outpatient

Education

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