Evaluating EHealth: How to Make Evaluation More Methodologically Robust

Overview

Journal PLoS Med

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2009 Dec 4

PMID 19956674

Citations 33

Authors

Richard James Lilford

Jo Foster

Mike Pringle

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