One Step Forward, One Step Back: Changes in News Coverage of Medical Interventions

Health Communication

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 174-187

  Walsh Childers, Kim ^a   Braddock, Jennifer ^a   Rabaza, Cristina ^b   Schwitzer, Gary ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; LITERATURE; MASS MEDIUM; PROCEDURES; PUBLISHING; STANDARDS;

HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; MASS MEDIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 85006309153     PISSN: 10410236     EISSN: 15327027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2016.1250706     Document Type: Article

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