Older adults searching for health information in MedlinePlus - An exploratory study of faceted online search interfaces

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 48, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kules, Bill ^a   Xie, Bo ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

E Health literacy; Faceted interfaces; Health information seeking behavior; Older adults

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861435056     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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