Challenges in using the internet to evaluate value in orthopaedic surgery.
Background: The Internet is one tool commonly used by patients to seek out healthcare information, including for orthopaedics. Our goal was to determine and compare the availability ("findability") of cost, quality, and patient experience information related to orthopaedic services with and without...
| Publicado en: | Current Orthopaedic Practice Vol. 29; no. 1; pp. 1 - 8 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Jan/Feb2018
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