Dental practitioners and a digital future: An initial exploration of barriers and incentives to adopting digital technologies

British Dental Journal

Volumn 215, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Van Der Zande, M M ^a,b   Gorter, R C ^a   Wismeijer, D ^b  

^a Department of Social Dentistry and Behavioural Sciences ^*  (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENTIST; MASS COMMUNICATION; NETHERLANDS;

DENTISTS; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84890037290     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: 17417503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2013.1146     Document Type: Article

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