Medical misinformation in the era of Google: Computational approaches to a pervasive problem

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 25, 2018, Pages 6318-6321

  Granter, Scott R ^a,b   Papke, David J ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CITATION ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NOTE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEARCH ENGINE; TRENDS; UTILIZATION;

COMMUNICATION; DATA ACCURACY; HUMANS; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 85048792688     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1808264115     Document Type: Note

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