This paper is in the following e-collection/theme issue:

Digital Health Reviews (1318) Internet Access and Digital Technology Use in an Elderly Population (224) Information Seeking, Information Needs (478) Demographics of Users, Social & Digital Divide (756) Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (689) Information and Patient Education on Healthy Aging (28) Chronic Conditions (278) Aging with Chronic Disease (116)

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

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/34790, first published .
Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Older Adults: Systematic Scoping Review

Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Older Adults: Systematic Scoping Review

Online Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Older Adults: Systematic Scoping Review

Authors of this article:

Yuxiang Chris Zhao1 Author Orcid Image ;   Mengyuan Zhao1 Author Orcid Image ;   Shijie Song2 Author Orcid Image
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