Clinical questions in online health communities: The case of "see your doctor" threads

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1488-1499

  Huh, Jina ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

moderators; Online health communities

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DIAGNOSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MODERATORS;

CLINICAL INFORMATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS; INFORMATION SHARING; ONLINE HEALTH COMMUNITIES; SOLUTION QUALITY;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84947114589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675259     Document Type: Conference Paper

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