Use of the Internet and ratings of information sources for medical decisions: results from the DECISIONS survey.

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Published in Med Decis Making on September 30, 2010

Authors

Mick P Couper1, Eleanor Singer, Carrie A Levin, Floyd J Fowler, Angela Fagerlin, Brian J Zikmund-Fisher

Author Affiliations

1: Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, USA. mcouper@umich.edu

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