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Seeing is Engaging: Vlogs as a Tool for Patient Engagement

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  1. Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA

    Joy L. Lee

  2. Regenstrief Institute, Inc., 1101 West Tenth Street, Room 225, Indianapolis, IN, 46203, USA

    Joy L. Lee

  3. The Frey Life, Boston, MA, USA

    Mary Frey & Peter Frey

  4. National Pharmaceutical Council, Washington DC, USA

    Ilene L. Hollin

  5. University of Southern California Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Ilene L. Hollin

  6. Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Albert W. Wu

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Mary and Peter Frey receive payment from YouTube for their vlog posts, depending on page views. Joy L. Lee, Ilene L. Hollin, and Albert W. Wu have no conflicts of interest to disclose.

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Lee, J.L., Frey, M., Frey, P. et al. Seeing is Engaging: Vlogs as a Tool for Patient Engagement. Patient 10, 267–270 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-017-0215-2

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