A MeSH based intelligent search intermediary for Consumer Health Information Systems

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 64, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 241-251

  Göbel, Georg ^a   Andreatta, Stefan ^a   Masser, Joachim ^a   Pfeiffer, Karl Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Consumer health information; Information retrieval; Internet; Patient information; Vector model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISEASES; HEALTH; INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; PATIENT TREATMENT; THESAURI;

INTELLIGENT SEARCH INTERMEDIARY;

MEDICAL COMPUTING;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SATISFACTION; STANDARD; VACCINATION;

AUSTRIA; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MEDLINE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SUBJECT HEADINGS;

EID: 0035187069     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1386-5056(01)00217-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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