Reformulation of consumer health queries with professional terminology: A pilot study

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Plovnick, Robert M ^a,b   Zeng, Qing T ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer informatics; Information retrieval; Internet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; HEALTH CARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE;

EID: 5444254379     PISSN: 14388871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.6.3.e27     Document Type: Article

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