Consumer health information on the Internet about carpal tunnel syndrome: Indicators of accuracy

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 168-174

  Frické, Martin ^a   Fallis, Don ^a   Jones, Marci ^b   Luszko, Gianna M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Carpal tunnel syndrome; Consumer health information; Internet; Link structure

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CONSUMER; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ORTHOPEDICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION;

EID: 13444301020     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2004.04.032     Document Type: Article

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