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Health information on social media.

Perceptions, attitudes, and practices of patients and their companions

Sumayyia D. Marar, May M. Al-Madaney and Fatimah H. Almousawi
Saudi Medical Journal December 2019, 40 (12) 1294-1298; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.12.24682
Sumayyia D. Marar
From the Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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May M. Al-Madaney
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Fatimah H. Almousawi
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vol. 40 no. 12 1294-1298
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2019.12.24682
PubMed 
31828284

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 5, 2019
  • Accepted October 22, 2019
  • Published online December 1, 2019.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Sumayyia D. Marar, MSc⇑,
  2. May M. Al-Madaney, MSc and
  3. Fatimah H. Almousawi, MRes
  1. From the Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprints request to: Dr. Sumayyia Marar, Research Center, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: smarar{at}kfmc.med.sa ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7812-7189
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