When conversation is better than computation

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 277-286

  Coiera, Enrico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERSATION; INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; REVIEW;

EID: 0034024328     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.2000.0070277     Document Type: Review

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