Do you mini-med school? Leveraging library resources to improve internet consumer health information literacy

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 27-37

  Van Moorsel, Guillaume ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer health information; Information literacy; Library partnerships; MEDLINEplus; Mini Med school; Outreach

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LIBRARY; MEDLINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGED; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; COMPUTER LITERACY; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; LIBRARIES, MEDICAL; MEDLINE; NEW YORK; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0035747766     PISSN: 02763869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J115v20n04_02     Document Type: Article

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