Strategies for Supporting Consumer Health Information Seeking

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 107, Issue , 2004, Pages 1152-1156

  McCray, Alexa T ^a   Ide, Nicholas C ^a   Loane, Russell R ^a   Tse, Tony ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Information Services; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Terminology

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION USE; SEARCH ENGINES;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; QUERY SUGGESTION; SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; USER INFORMATION; USER QUERY; WEB BASED;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; NOMENCLATURE; SEARCH ENGINE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA BASE; DOCUMENTATION; HEALTH EDUCATION;

ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING; ALGORITHMS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; DATABASES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; TERMINOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 21644443126     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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