Information seeking and social support in online health communities: impact on patients' perceived empathy
Open Access
- 1 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
- Vol. 18 (3), 298-304
- https://doi.org/10.1136/amiajnl-2010-000058
Abstract
Objective Many healthcare organizations (HCOs) including Kaiser Permanente, Johns Hopkins, Cleveland Medical Center, and MD Anderson Cancer Center, pThis publication has 48 references indexed in Scilit:
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