The ARDS Support Center
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The ARDS Support Center (developed by Ken Jonah, an acute respiratory distress syndrome [ARDS] survivor, and supported by donations from ARDS survivors and ARDS victims’ families) is a website devoted to providing relevant medical information and emotional support to survivors of ARDS and to patients’ families. In reviewing this site, we browsed through the online offerings and assessed the information provided as well as the user interface.
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 7 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003