"Like hunger, like thirst": Patients, journals, and the internet

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue SUPPL.2, 1998, Pages

  McLellan, Faith ^a,b,c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTMB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032480604     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(98)90301-4     Document Type: Article

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