The use of tags and tag clouds to discern credible content in online health message forums

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 36-44

  O'Grady, Laura ^a   Wathen, C Nadine ^b   Charnaw Burger, Jill ^c   Betel, Lisa ^c   Shachak, Aviv ^c   Luke, Robert ^d   Hockema, Stephen ^c   Jadad, Alejandro R ^c  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access; Communications media; Evaluation; Healthcare quality; Internet; Patient education; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

ACCESS; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; EVALUATION; HEALTHCARE QUALITY; PATIENT EDUCATION;

CLOUDS; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE; INTERNET; LABELS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SEMANTIC WEB;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; ONLINE HEALTH MESSAGE FORUM; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; SELF CARE; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORK; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEMATIC ANALYSIS;

DIABETES MELLITUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 83455219893     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: 18728243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.10.001     Document Type: Article

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