"Things my doctor never told me": Bridging information gaps in an online community

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-10

  Rubenstein, Ellen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Health information; Online communities; Patient provider communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878591533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901126     Document Type: Article

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