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Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (1247) Physician and Health Services Rating by Consumers (202) Information Seeking, Information Needs (642) Health Care Quality and Health Services Research (513)

Published on in Vol 22, No 9 (2020): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/20910, first published .
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Exploring Types of Information Sources Used When Choosing Doctors: Observational Study in an Online Health Care Community

Exploring Types of Information Sources Used When Choosing Doctors: Observational Study in an Online Health Care Community

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Shuang Zhang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jying-Nan Wang1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ya-Ling Chiu2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Yuan-Teng Hsu4 Author Orcid Image
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