More than technology and access: primary care patients' views on the use and non-use of health information in the Internet age.
Over the past decade, there has been considerable interest in the transmission of health information made available though the Internet with increasing confidence being placed in the potential power of the Internet to transform communication, clinical practice and relationships with patients. Subseq...
| Publicado en: | Health & Social Care in the Community Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 102 - 111 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2004
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