Bad news: Analysis of the quality of information on influenza prevention returned by Google in English and Italian

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue DEC, 2015, Pages

  Maki, Ali ^a   Evans, Roger ^b   Ghezzi, Pietro ^a  

^a BRIGHTON AND SUSSEX MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Google; Influenza; Information; Information quality; Internet; Prevention; Vaccine; Websites

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; INFLUENZA VACCINE;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; GOVERNMENT; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; HYGIENE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; LIFESTYLE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84954506286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00616     Document Type: Article

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