Consumer health information seeking on the Internet: the state of the art.

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Health Education Research

• Publication date

  2001-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business

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  DOI 10.1093/HER/16.6.671PMID 11780707
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