Italian hospitals on the web: A cross-sectional analysis of official websites

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Maifredi, Giovanni ^a   Orizio, Grazia ^a   Bressanelli, Maura ^a   Domenighini, Serena ^a   Gasparotti, Cinzia ^a   Perini, Eleonora ^a   Caimi, Luigi ^a   Schulz, Peter J ^b   Gelatti, Umberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; E-MAIL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INTERNET; ITALY; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; INTERNET; ITALY; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77950524202     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-17     Document Type: Article

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