Physicians, patients, and Facebook: Could you? Would you? Should you?

Health Marketing Quarterly

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 112-126

  Peluchette, Joy V ^a   Karl, Katherine A ^b   Coustasse, Alberto ^c  

^a LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

^c MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; patients; physicians; privacy; social media

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIVACY; SOCIAL MEDIA; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; ETHICS; INTERNET; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

HUMANS; INTERNET; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PRIVACY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84975318120     PISSN: 07359683     EISSN: 15450864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07359683.2016.1166811     Document Type: Article

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