Assessing, Controlling, and Assuring the Quality of Medical Information on the Internet: Caveant Lector et Viewor - Let the Reader and Viewer Beware

Generations

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 53-55

  Silberg, William M ^a   Lundberg, George D ^b   Musacchio, Robert A ^b  

^a New Media Office   (United States)

^b AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

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