Building a virtual network in a community health research training program

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 361-377

  Lau, Francis ^a   Hayward, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPUTER NETWORK; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; TRAINING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0033941104     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070361     Document Type: Article

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