What's the difference between booklet and pamphlet?

Booklet


Definition:

  • (n.) A little book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We were very disappointed when the DH decided to suspend printing Reduce the Risk, a vital resource in the prevention of cot death in the UK", said Francine Bates, chief executive of the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths, which helped produce the booklet.
  • (2) Unfortunately, the risk factors section in the pregnancy surveillance booklet does not receive sufficient medical documentation.
  • (3) At two chest clinics 1206 cigarette smokers referred by their general practitioners for chest radiography only either were dealt with in the normal way or in addition were given a How to Stop Smoking booklet by the clinic receptionist or nurse.
  • (4) We ran meta-analyses that compared the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory scale scores produced in 770 booklet and 762 computer administrations described by nine studies.
  • (5) Although initial HbA1c was low (6.7%), it declined during the telematic period (delta = -0.41%) compared with the booklet period (delta = +0.37%, P = 0.05).
  • (6) The author developed an instructional booklet for each of three types of hyperlipidemia.
  • (7) The intervention group received an interpreted measurement of the serum cotinine, reported through the physician to the woman, along with a self-help smoking cessation booklet and a repeat serum cotinine measurement one month later, again interpreted and reported through the physician to the woman.
  • (8) The Femcap is an attractive alternative barrier method because of its ready fit, lack of urinary tract infection side effects, and user-friendly teaching booklet and videotape.
  • (9) A Committee was appointed in 1973 by the National Board of Health and Welfare, which initiated a number of breast feeding promoting activities: the editing of a Manual for health personnel, and booklets for mothers, the systematic arranging of workshops for key personnel in each county, stimulation to more flexible and breast feeding favouring maternity routines, backing of working groups of La Leche League-type, etc.
  • (10) Controls received the booklet without the educational intervention.
  • (11) As of April 1985, only 166 of the hospitals that completed the booklet questionnaire sponsored clinical training for these students.
  • (12) Numerous educational materials were developed including training manuals, counseling booklets, tippee cups, posters, and bumper stickers.
  • (13) Scores on a 15-item test of knowledge about back pain were significantly higher in the group of patients who had received the booklet than in the control group.
  • (14) Participants were assigned to 1) a booklet-only comparison group that received a manual including behavior change, nutrition, and exercise information and traditional recipes modified in fat content; 2) an individual group that received the same manual and attended year-long classes; or 3) a family group that received a manual and attended classes that emphasized techniques for making changes in the family's eating and exercising habits.
  • (15) Efficacy and adverse events were recorded by the patients in diary-form booklets using visual analog scales (VAS).
  • (16) We recommended that the government include candidate statements in the information booklet sent to all households.
  • (17) Using 42 health centres, whose comparability of methodology was ensured through a training seminar and an instructional booklet on the psychometric battery of tests employed, some 400 elderly patients aged 60-80 years were enrolled using strict selection criteria.
  • (18) Only 25% gave booklets as the first source of information.
  • (19) During two of the intervention procedures used in the additive design, the patient could earn coupon booklets from the hospital commissary if his daily average urine sugar levels were less than a set criterion.
  • (20) Half of the patients received the information booklet about the endoscopic investigations and half did not.

Pamphlet


Definition:

  • (n.) A writing; a book.
  • (n.) A small book consisting of a few sheets of printed paper, stitched together, often with a paper cover, but not bound; a short essay or written discussion, usually on a subject of current interest.
  • (v. i.) To write a pamphlet or pamphlets.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A small clinic consisting of 1 room decorated with pamphlets against AIDS, malaria, and other diseases was managed by the chief primary health care (PHC) assistant named Joseph.
  • (2) Mainly though, the pamphlet – which you can read in its original form in the Women's Library in east London – is fulminating rightwingness, peppered with self-publicising, a proto-Melanie Phillips with an extra PhD.
  • (3) Jon Cruddas Sitting amid piles of policy papers and pamphlets, many of which were never adopted (to his intense frustration), the MP for Dagenham speaks of an existential threat to Labour unless it confronts the scale of its failure.
  • (4) It is permissible to have intercourse with the female slave who hasn’t reached puberty if she is fit for intercourse.” The pamphlet added that it was also permissible to buy, sell, or give as a gift female slaves, “for they are merely property, which can be disposed of”.
  • (5) The chancellor's position was not helped by the centre right Centre for Policy Studies which argued in a pamphlet on Monday that he would struggle to meet his deficit reduction plan, the cornerstone of the government's economic strategy.
  • (6) In a pamphlet to be published by the Lib Dem thinktank CentreForum, Burstow describes it as "an anomaly in our welfare system" and an ineffective way of targeting help.
  • (7) The intervention consisted of the practice receptionist giving female patients pamphlets about Papanicolaou smear-tests and the general practitioner offering a Papanicolaou smear-test.
  • (8) The Lib Dems are sending out pamphlets for next month's European elections showing Clegg as the man trying to stop Farage.
  • (9) The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) of the Public Health Service made public health history in 1988 by mailing the pamphlet, "Understanding AIDS," to every household in the United States.
  • (10) Javid wrote about his early life for a pamphlet with a foreword by Major, which spotlighted the working-class backgrounds of more than a dozen Conservative MPs.
  • (11) From the early pamphleteers – Tom Paine for one – to the muckrakers who fought injustice such as Nellie Bly; from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Ralph Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed ; from Mother Jones to the Pentagon papers, the words that shook America mostly came from passionate reporters with a cause to champion.
  • (12) A questionnaire distributed to 500 patients, answered by 48.2%, showed that most patients liked to receive the pamphlets and 85.5% found them useful.
  • (13) When Michoacán's governor obliquely blamed the caballeros for the murder, they responded with banners and pamphlets that denied the charge.
  • (14) Information pamphlets for certain drugs on prescription have been distributed to patients by pharmacies since 1985.
  • (15) That is partly why we published out pamphlet today because there is intense frustration across the university and college community – we are not prepared to just allow the debate around universities to go nowhere.
  • (16) They claim in their pamphlet that "a quarter of station staff could go" and warned of the consequences of "sharing afternoon programmes on BBC Radio Nottingham, and having just one programme for the whole of England after 7pm".
  • (17) Thus you can witness unironical celebrations of Rand Paul as an original thinker, despite the fact that his every core policy proposal reads like a distorted Xerox of an older Xerox of his father’s decades of rant-pamphleteering.
  • (18) The pamphlet scored a reading ease grade of 45, corresponding to what is considered difficult reading and at a level commonly found in academic journals.
  • (19) Those techniques were used to analyze a pamphlet designed for patient education by the American Academy of Dermatology.
  • (20) We sent a pamphlet that explained the program to 1568 people who had undergone apheresis and asked them to reply, stating their interest.