Fake medical news: avoiding pitfalls and perils

Affiliations

¹ School of Counseling, Human Performance and Rehabilitation, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
² Department of Applied Communication, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

Amar Shireesh Kanekar et al. Fam Med Community Health. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 4;7(4):e000142.

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2019-000142. eCollection 2019.

¹ School of Counseling, Human Performance and Rehabilitation, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.
² Department of Applied Communication, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: health literacy; health promotion; information dissemination; patient medication knowledge; practice guidelines as topic.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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