Is Relevance Relevant? User Relevance Ratings May Not Predict the Impact of Internet Search on Decision Outcomes

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 542-545

  Coiera, Enrico W ^a   Vickland, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; SEARCH ENGINE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS;

EID: 45849112206     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2663     Document Type: Article

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