Content analysis of cancer blog posts

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 260-266

  Kim, Sujin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTENT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MASS COMMUNICATION; MESH HEADING; NEOPLASM; SEARCH ENGINE;

BLOGGING; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70449435655     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: 15589439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3163/1536-5050.97.4.009     Document Type: Article

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