An international comparison of web-based reporting about health care quality: Content analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Damman, Olga C ^a   Ka Van Den Henge, Ylva ^b   Van Loon, A Jeanne M ^b   Rademakers, Jany ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Consumer health information; Content analysis; Decision making; Information display; International comparison; Internet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DATA DISPLAY; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNATIONALITY; INTERNET; PUBLISHING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77953854170     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1191     Document Type: Article

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