Investigating the congruence of crowdsourced information with official government data: The case of pediatric clinics

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Kim, Minki ^a   Jung, Yuchul ^b   Jung, Dain ^a   Hur, Cinyoung ^c  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI)   (South Korea)

^c Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Online health community; Public health; Risk of misinformation

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CROWDSOURCING; DATA MINING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITY; ONLINE SYSTEM; PEDIATRICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK OF MISINFORMATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH KOREA; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE;

CROWDSOURCING; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK OF MISINFORMATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CROWDSOURCING; DATA MINING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PEDIATRICS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 84897593778     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3078     Document Type: Article

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