Making sense of conflicting health information: An exploratory study
Open Access
- 1 November 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Vol. 47 (1), 1-9
- https://doi.org/10.1002/meet.14504701178
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