Rating health information on the internet; Navigating to knowledge or to babel?

JAMA

Volumn 279, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 611-614

  Jadad, Alejandro R ^a,b,c   Gagliardi, Anna ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORK; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032564896     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.279.8.611     Document Type: Review

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