Cyberchondria: Studies of the escalation of medical concerns in Web search

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  White, Ryen W ^a   Horvitz, Eric ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberchondria

Indexed keywords

DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL TRAINING; SEARCH RESULTS; WEB SEARCH ENGINES; WEB SEARCHES;

BIOINFORMATICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 75149180454     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1629096.1629101     Document Type: Article

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