Quality of health-related online search results

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 454-462

  Kitchens, Brent ^a   Harle, Christopher A ^a   Li, Shengli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Health search; Health website quality; Online information quality; Online medical information; Search quality

Indexed keywords

HEALTH INFORMATIONS; HIGH QUALITY INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ON-LINE INFORMATION; ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION; QUALITY LEVELS; SEARCH QUALITY; WEBSITE QUALITY;

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; DIAGNOSIS; SEARCH ENGINES;

HEALTH;

EID: 84892364347     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2012.10.050     Document Type: Article

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