Crowdsourcing awareness: Exploration of the ovarian cancer knowledge gap through amazon mechanical turk

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Carter, Rebecca R ^a   DiFeo, Analisa ^b   Bogie, Kath ^b   Zhang, Guo Qiang ^b   Sun, Jiayang ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LETHALITY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; ONLINE ANALYSIS; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROWDSOURCING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERNET; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROWDSOURCING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899885263     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085508     Document Type: Article

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