Telemedicine - Is the cart being put before the horse?

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 200, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 530-533

  Armfield, Nigel R ^a,b   Edirippulige, Sisira K ^a   Bradford, Natalie ^a,b   Smith, Anthony C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; STANDARD; TELEMEDICINE;

AUSTRALIA; HUMANS; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84903777997     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/mja13.11101     Document Type: Article

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