Health information searching behavior in MedlinePlus and the impact of tasks

IHI'12 - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 641-650

  Zhang, Yan ^a   Wang, Peiling ^b   Heaton, Amy ^a   Winkler, Heidi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer health informatics; Health information searching behavior; Health information systems; MedlinePlus; Search tasks

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH INFORMATIONS; MEDLINEPLUS; SEARCH TASKS;

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; HEALTH; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; STUDENTS; WEBSITES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84863252135     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2110363.2110434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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