Using social networking sites in subject tracing

Field Methods

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-85

  Nwadiuko, Joseph ^a   Isbell, Patricia ^a   Zolotor, Adam J ^b   Hussey, Jon ^a   Kotch, Jonathan B ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; follow up; MySpace; social networking; study tracing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650715966     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: 15523969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X10384088     Document Type: Article

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