What explains usage of mobile physician-rating apps results from a web-based questionnaire

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Bidmon, Sonja ^a   Terlutter, Ralf ^a   Röttl, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

Author keywords

Digital literacy; Physician rating apps; Physician rating websites; Psychographic variables; Sociodemographic variables; TAM

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTER LITERACY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906273354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3122     Document Type: Article

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