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Knowledge Coupling

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This book is about a journey from an old tool to a new tool, to new premises, and finally to knowledge couplers, another new tool that emerged from what the early days of the journey had revealed.

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Weed, L.L. (1991). Introduction. In: Knowledge Coupling. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3150-9_1

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