What are patients seeking when they turn to the internet? Qualitativecontent analysis of questions asked by visitors to an orthopaedics web site

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1-22

  Shuyler, Kristen S ^a   Knight, Kristin M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Information storage and retrieval; Internet; Orthopedics; Patients

Indexed keywords

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; FAMILY; FRIEND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN RELATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ORTHOPEDICS; PATIENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; SPORTS MEDICINE; SYMPTOM;

EID: 3142618473     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.5.4.e24     Document Type: Article

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