The Information Prescription: Just What the Doctor Ordered!

Journal of Hospital Librarianship

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 358-365

  Timm, Donna F ^a   Jones, Dee ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

consumer health; electronic health resources; information prescription; information Rx; online health information

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859347889     PISSN: 15323269     EISSN: 15323277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15323269.2011.611110     Document Type: Article

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