Locating patient expertise in everyday life

GROUP'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Supporting Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 291-300

  Civan, Andrea ^a   McDonald, David W ^b   Unruh, Kenton T ^a   Pratt, Wanda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Expertise location; Expertise sharing; Patient expertise

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; EXPERTISE SHARING; FIELD STUDIES; GATEKEEPING; HEALTH ISSUES; HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM; INTERNET BASED; PERSONAL HEALTH; SOCIAL SOFTWARE; WORKPLACE ORGANIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HEALTH;

LOCATION;

EID: 77950473195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1531674.1531718     Document Type: Conference Paper

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