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ERIC Number: EJ620957
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2001
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-6917
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Use of the Internet by Patients: Not a Threat to Nursing, but an Opportunity?
Timmons, Stephen
Nurse Education Today, v21 n2 p104-09 Feb 2001
Patients' use of Internet health information raises concerns about reliability, access to information meant for clinicians, and self-diagnosis and treatment. Nurses should become informed and undertake patient education about consumer health informatics. (Contains 25 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Information Literacy, Internet, Nurses, Patient Education
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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