Health Literacy, Vulnerable Patients, and Health Information Technology Use: Where Do We Go from Here?

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 271-272

  Lyles, Courtney R ^a,b   Sarkar, Urmimala ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL DIVIDE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; TRENDS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

DIGITAL DIVIDE; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84939941918     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3166-5     Document Type: Article

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