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Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (531) Information Quality in Digital Media (340)

Published on in Vol 19, No 1 (2017): January

Rare Diseases on the Internet: An Assessment of the Quality of Online Information

Rare Diseases on the Internet: An Assessment of the Quality of Online Information

Rare Diseases on the Internet: An Assessment of the Quality of Online Information

Authors of this article:

Frédéric Pauer1 Author Orcid Image ;   Svenja Litzkendorf1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jens Göbel2 Author Orcid Image ;   Holger Storf2 Author Orcid Image ;   Jan Zeidler1 Author Orcid Image ;   Johann-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg1 Author Orcid Image
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