Benefits of and barriers to the use of personal health records (PHR) for health management among adults

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kim, Kyungsook ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers to PHRs; Benefits of PHRs; Community adults; Consumer health informatics; Impact of PHRs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872590846     PISSN: 10899758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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