Web conversations about complementary and alternative medicines and cancer: Content and sentiment analysis

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Mazzocut, Mauro ^a   Truccolo, Ivana ^a   Antonini, Marialuisa ^b   Rinaldi, Fabio ^c   Omero, Paolo ^d   Ferrarin, Emanuela ^a   De Paoli, Paolo ^a   Tasso, Carlo ^d  

^a CENTRO DI RIFERIMENTO ONCOLOGICO   (Italy)

^b InfoFACTORY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barriers to patient doctor communication; Complementary and alternative medicine; Data mining; Health information online; Internet; Misinformation; Neoplasms; Sentiment analysis; Website content analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; DATA MINING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES; DATA MINING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84977577619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.5521     Document Type: Article

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