e-Health: Are there expert patients out there?

Health Sociology Review

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-181

  Gortzis, Lefteris G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

e Health; Expert patient; Human factors; Sociology; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952637123     PISSN: 14461242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/hesr.18.2.173     Document Type: Article

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