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Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (938) Information Retrieval (487) Information Quality in Digital Media (453) Information Seeking, Information Needs (651)

Published on in Vol 24, No 2 (2022): February

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/29275, first published .
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The Effects of Website Traits and Medical Skepticism on Patients’ Willingness to Follow Web-Based Medical Advice: Web-Based Experiment

The Effects of Website Traits and Medical Skepticism on Patients’ Willingness to Follow Web-Based Medical Advice: Web-Based Experiment

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Jennifer Claggett1 Author Orcid Image ;   Brent Kitchens2 Author Orcid Image ;   Maria Paino3 Author Orcid Image ;   Kaitlyn Beisecker Levin4 Author Orcid Image
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