Does the quality, accuracy, and readability of information about lateral epicondylitis on the internet vary with the search term used?

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Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 420-425

  Dy, Christopher J ^a   Taylor, Samuel A ^a   Patel, Ronak M ^b   McCarthy, Moira M ^a   Roberts, Timothy R ^a   Daluiski, Aaron ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Health literacy; Internet; Lateral epicondylitis; Online education; Patient education; Readability; Tennis elbow

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870365495     PISSN: 15589447     EISSN: 15589455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11552-012-9443-z     Document Type: Article

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