Characteristics of consumer terminology for health information retrieval

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 289-298

  Zeng, Qing ^a   Kogan, S ^a   Ash, N ^a   Greenes, R A ^a   Boxwala, A A ^a  

^a Thorn 309 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer health; Information retrieval; Medical vocabulary; Query analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONSUMER; HEALTH SERVICE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOMENCLATURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036403033     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634490     Document Type: Article

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