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A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication

Moorhead SA, Hazlett DE, Harrison L, Carroll JK, Irwin A, Hoving C. · Journal of medical Internet research · 2013

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A New Dimension of Health Care: Systematic Review of the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Social Media for Health Communication
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Moorhead SA, Hazlett DE, Harrison L, Carroll JK, Irwin A, Hoving C.
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©S Anne Moorhead, Diane E. Hazlett, Laura Harrison, Jennifer K Carroll, Anthea Irwin, Ciska Hoving. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 23.04.2013. 2013 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.

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