Tele-medicine: A new promised land, just to save resources?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Ambrosino, Nicolino ^a   Makhabah, Dewi Nurul ^b  

^a Fondazione Volterra Ricerche Onlus   (Italy)

^b SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE PLANNING; TELEMEDICINE;

HEALTH RESOURCES; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 85030851152     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00410-2017     Document Type: Editorial

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