Assisting consumer health information retrieval with query recommendations

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 80-90

  Zeng, Qing T ^a   Crowell, Jonathan ^a   Plovnick, Robert M ^a   Kim, Eunjung ^a   Ngo, Long ^b   Dibble, Emily ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Bunker Hill Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; HEALTH; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; PATIENTS; SEMANTICS; TERMINOLOGY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 29244455625     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M1820     Document Type: Article

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