Diagnoses, decisions, and outcomes: Web search as decision support for cancer

WWW 2015 - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 831-841

  Paul, Michael J ^a   White, Ryen W ^b   Horvitz, Eric ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Decision making; Medical search

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; UROLOGY;

BROWSING BEHAVIOR; CANCER; DECISION SUPPORTS; MEDICAL SEARCH; MODEL SEARCH; PROSTATE CANCERS; SEARCH QUERIES; WEB SEARCHES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84968813430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2736277.2741662     Document Type: Conference Paper

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