Making sense of conflicting health information: An exploratory study

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 47, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wu, Lei ^a   Ahn, Hoyoung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflicting health information; Health communication; Qualitative interview

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861441319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504701178     Document Type: Conference Paper

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