Ethical issues when using social media for health outside professional relationships

International Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 97-105

  Decamp, Matthew ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH ETHICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); CONFIDENTIALITY; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENTIALITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; GLOBAL HEALTH; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PATIENT SELECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84929072402     PISSN: 09540261     EISSN: 13691627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09540261.2014.1001726     Document Type: Article

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