The Uses and Gratifications of Online Care Pages: A Study of CaringBridge

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Health Communication

• Publication date

  2011-04-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1080/10410236.2011.558335PMID 21469004
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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