Telehealth and telecare: Over-claiming the evidence for telehealth and telecare?

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 346, Issue 7910, 2013, Pages

  Oliver, David ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LETTER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PEER REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEHEALTH; TELEMEDICINE; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84880459316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.f3377     Document Type: Letter

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