Assessing the health information needs of the emergency preparedness and management community

Information Services and Use

Volumn 28, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 269-280

  Turoff, Murray ^a   Hiltz, Starr Roxanne ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Emergency management; Information overload; Recommender systems

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MANAGEMENT; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; COMMUNITY OF PRACTICES; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESSES; EMERGENCY RESPONSE MANAGEMENTS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION NEEDS; INFORMATION OVERLOAD; PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITIES; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; RELEVANT DOCUMENTS; SOCIAL TAGGING;

CIVIL DEFENSE;

EID: 58149513270     PISSN: 01675265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ISU-2008-0588     Document Type: Article

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