Consumers' use of umls concepts on social media: Diabetes-related textual data analysis in blog and social Q&A sites

JMIR Medical Informatics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Park, Min Sook ^a   He, Zhe ^a   Chen, Zhiwei ^b   Oh, Sanghee ^a   Bian, Jiang ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Concept coverage; Consumer health vocabulary; Controlled vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027479140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22919694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/medinform.5748     Document Type: Article

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