A model for online consumer health information quality

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1781-1791

  Stvilia, Besiki ^a   Mon, Lorri ^a   Yi, Yong Jeong ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION PROCESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL DATA; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; INFORMATION PROVIDER; INFORMATION QUALITY; MULTINOMIALS; ONLINE CONSUMERS; QUALITY CRITERIA; QUALITY EVALUATION; WEB DIRECTORIES; WEB PAGE;

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; HEALTH; ONTOLOGY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 69249098924     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21115     Document Type: Article

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