Patients’ online information -seeking behavior

The Internet and Health Care: Theory, Research, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 127-148

  Josefsson, Ulrika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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EID: 84920600941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203810675     Document Type: Chapter

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