Evidence review of technology and dietary assessment

Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 191-204

  Long, JoAnn D ^a   Littlefield, Laurel A ^b   Estep, Gary ^a   Martin, Hope ^a   Rogers, Toby J ^a   Boswell, Carol ^c   Shriver, Brent J ^d   Roman Shriver, Carmen R ^d  

^a LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Dietary assessment; Fruit(s); Technology; Vegetable(s); World Wide Web (WWW)

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER; FRUIT; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROCOMPUTER; MULTIMEDIA; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; REMINDER SYSTEM; REVIEW; VEGETABLE;

COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; DIET RECORDS; FRUIT; HEALTH RECORDS, PERSONAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MULTIMEDIA; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; VEGETABLES;

EID: 78650162452     PISSN: 1545102X     EISSN: 17416787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6787.2009.00173.x     Document Type: Review

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