Identifying adverse effects of HIV drug treatment and associated sentiments using twitter

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Adrover, Cosme ^a   Bodnar, Todd ^a   Huang, Zhuojie ^a   Telenti, Amalio ^b   Salathé, Marcel ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; HIV; Mechanical turk; MTurk; Pharmacovigilance; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954311262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.4488     Document Type: Article

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