Is the Internet a useful and relevant source for health and health care information retrieval for German cardiothoracic patients? First results from a prospective survey among 255 Patients at a German cardiothoracic surgical clinic

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Stoevesandt, Dietrich ^a   Diez, Claudius ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 34248324464     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-1-36     Document Type: Article

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