Feeling blue? Go online: An empirical study of social support among patients

Information Systems Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 690-709

  Yan, Lu ^a   Tan, Yong ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Healthcare; Partially observed Markov decision process; Social networks; Social support; User generated content

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; MARKOV PROCESSES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACCURATE PREDICTION; INFORMATIONAL SUPPORT; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITIES; ONLINE HEALTHCARE COMMUNITIES; PARTIALLY OBSERVED MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

HEALTH;

EID: 84923286253     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: 15265536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.2014.0538     Document Type: Article

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