Development of a patient-oriented tool for evaluating the quality of breast cancer information on the Internet

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 136, Issue , 2008, Pages 297-302

  Hsu, Wen Chin ^a   Bath, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Evaluation tool; Feasibility; Information quality; Reliability; Validity

Indexed keywords

RELIABILITY; WEBSITES; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

CONVERGENT VALIDITY; CRONBACH'S ALPHAS; EVALUATION TOOL; FEASIBILITY; INFORMATION QUALITY; PATIENT-ORIENTED; RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY; VALIDITY; BREAST CANCER; GENERIC TOOLS; SPECIFIC TOOL; TIME SPENT;

DISEASES;

EID: 44349140133     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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