Conceptual Framework for a New Tool for Evaluating the Quality of Diabetes Consumer-Information Web Sites

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Year of publication:	2003-11-27
Authors:	Seidman, Joshua J ; Steinwachs, Donald ; Rubin, Haya R
Publisher:	Gunther Eysenbach; Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, Toronto, Canada
Subject:	Original Paper \| Internet/standards \| information management/standards \| medical informatics/standards \| guidelines \| quality of health care \| diabetes

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