Patient-oriented cancer information on the internet: A comparison of wikipedia and a professionally maintained database

Journal of Oncology Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 319-323

  Rajagopalan, Malolan S ^a,b,c,d,e   Khanna, Vineet K ^a,b,c,d,e   Leiter, Yaacov ^a,b,c,d,e   Stott, Meghan ^a,b,c,d,e   Showalter, Timothy N ^a,b,c,d,e   Dicker, Adam P ^a,b,c,d,e   Lawrence, Yaacov R ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANCER INFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEOPLASM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIAN DATA QUERY; READING; RELIABILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; WIKIPEDIA;

EID: 84855410024     PISSN: 15547477     EISSN: 1935469X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JOP.2010.000209     Document Type: Article

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