Impact of web searching and social feedback on consumer decision making: A prospective online experiment

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lau, Annie Y S ^a   Coiera, Enrico W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Confidence; Decision making; Health care consumer; Information searching; Internet; Social feedback

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUSTRALIA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSUMER; DATA BASE; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDLINE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC OPINION; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; DECISION MAKING; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MALE; MEDLINEPLUS; NEW SOUTH WALES; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBMED; STUDENTS;

EID: 39049156408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.963     Document Type: Article

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