Online health information impacts patients' decisions to seek emergency department care

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 174-177

  Pourmand, Ali ^a   Sikka, Neal ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Emergency Medicine; Information Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961233123     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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