Consumer perspectives on quality attributes in evaluating health websites

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2675-2684

  Tao, Donghua ^a   LeRouge, Cynthia M ^a   Deckard, Gloria ^b   De Leo, Gianluca ^c  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; WEBSITES;

HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HIGH QUALITY; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE METHODS; WEBSITE QUALITY;

HEALTH;

EID: 84857981604     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.180     Document Type: Conference Paper

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