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Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (654) Information Quality in Digital Media (407) Atopic Eczema (24)

Published on in Vol 22, No 4 (2020): April

Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube

Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube

Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube

Authors of this article:

Simon M Mueller1 Author Orcid Image ;   Valentina N S Hongler1 Author Orcid Image ;   Pierre Jungo1 Author Orcid Image ;   Lucian Cajacob1 Author Orcid Image ;   Simon Schwegler1 Author Orcid Image ;   Esther H Steveling2 Author Orcid Image ;   Zita-Rose Manjaly Thomas2 Author Orcid Image ;   Oliver Fuchs3 Author Orcid Image ;   Alexander Navarini1 Author Orcid Image ;   Kathrin Scherer2 Author Orcid Image ;   Oliver Brandt1, 3 Author Orcid Image
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