Ethical issues in qualitative research on internet communities

British Medical Journal

Volumn 323, Issue 7321, 2001, Pages 1103-1105

  Eysenbach, G ^a   Till, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0035841472     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.323.7321.1103     Document Type: Short Survey

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