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Original Article

Global communication practices of physiotherapists on Twitter

Mark MerolliSchool of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia; ;Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Correspondence[email protected]
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Maria-Louisa BusuttilConsumer Affairs and Civil Liberties, Ministry for Social Dialogue, Valletta, Malta;
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Charlotte WåhlinOccupational and Environmental Medicine Centre, County Council of Östergötland and Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; ;Unit of Intervention and Implementation Research, Karolinska Institutet, Institute for Environmental Medicine, Stockholm, Sweden; ORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4508-8304
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Ann GreenFaculty of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Pages 20-26 | Received 01 Feb 2018, Accepted 07 Apr 2018, Published online: 26 Apr 2018

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