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This chapter provides a brief overview on the content and language peculiarities of clinical documents to have a reference for a comparison to content and language in medical blogs and medical social media.
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Denecke, K. (2015). Excursus: Content and Language in Clinical Narratives. In: Health Web Science. Health Information Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20582-3_5
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