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Evaluation and Research Methodology for mHealth (219) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (591) Information Quality in Digital Media (368)

Published on in Vol 8, No 5 (2020): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/14826, first published .
Evaluating the Quality of Health-Related WeChat Public Accounts: Cross-Sectional Study

Evaluating the Quality of Health-Related WeChat Public Accounts: Cross-Sectional Study

Evaluating the Quality of Health-Related WeChat Public Accounts: Cross-Sectional Study

Authors of this article:

Fuzhi Wang1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Zhuoxin Wang2, 4 Author Orcid Image ;   Weiwei Sun1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Xiumu Yang5 Author Orcid Image ;   Zhiwei Bian1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Lining Shen2, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Wei Pan1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Peng Liu1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Xingzhi Chen1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Lianguo Fu2, 7 Author Orcid Image ;   Fan Zhang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Dan Luo1, 2, 5 Author Orcid Image
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