Sources and coverage of medical news on front pages of US newspapers

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Lai, William Y Y ^a   Lane, Trevor ^b   Jones, Alison ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MASS MEDIUM; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ONLINE SYSTEM; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; RESEARCH PRIORITY; UNITED STATES; BIBLIOMETRICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INTERNET; PUBLIC OPINION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEWSPAPERS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLISHING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70149112113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006856     Document Type: Article

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