Strategic considerations for improving the quality of eHealth research: We need to improve the quality and capacity of academia to undertake informatics research

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 175-177

  Black, Ashly ^a   Car, Josip ^a   Majeed, Azeem ^a   Sheikh, Aziz ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORD; RESEARCH; STANDARD; UNITED KINGDOM; UNIVERSITY;

GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; RESEARCH; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 60549091617     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v16i3.690     Document Type: Editorial

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