Health Information Quality on the Internet in Urological Oncology: A Multilingual Longitudinal Evaluation

Urology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1058-1063

  Lawrentschuk, Nathan ^a   Abouassaly, Robert ^a   Hackett, Nadia ^a   Groll, Ryan ^a   Fleshner, Neil E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UROLOGY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; UROLOGIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70350571197     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.05.091     Document Type: Article

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