What i've learned from E-patients

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 0728-0730

  Hoch, Dan ^a   Ferguson, Tom ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Pew Internet and Amer Life Project   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPOWERMENT; EPILEPSY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; LEARNING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT INFORMATION; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL WELFARE; SUPPORT GROUP; ARTICLE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LITERATURE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; SELF HELP; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ANECDOTES AS TOPIC; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 33846578656     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020206     Document Type: Short Survey

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