Requests for medical advice from patients and families to health care providers who publish on the world wide web

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 157, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 209-212

  Widman, Lawrence E ^a,b   Tong, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONSULTATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031025017     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.157.2.209     Document Type: Article

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