Telemedicine service use: A new metric

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Mars, Maurice ^a   Scott, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economics; Evidence based; Literature review; Telemedicine metrics; Telemedicine use; Telemedicine utilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; TELEMEDICINE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84872443075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1938     Document Type: Article

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