A survey of kidney disease and risk-factor information on the World Wide Web

MedGenMed Medscape General Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Calderón, José Luís ^a,b   Zadshir, Ashraf ^a   Norris, Keith ^a,c  

^a CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^b Center for Applied Health Communication   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MINORITY GROUP; READING; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL STATUS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 25144497517     PISSN: 15310132     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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