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Profile of e-Patients: Analysis of Their Cancer Information-Seeking From a National Survey

Kyunghye Kim School of Library and Information Studies, College of Communication and Information, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Nahyun Kwon Department of Library and Information Science, Myongji University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Pages 712-733 | Published online: 19 Nov 2010

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