Assisting e-patients in an Ask the Doctor Service
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چکیده
Ask the doctor services are personalized forums allowing patients to ask questions directly to doctors. Usually, patients must choose the most appropriate category for their question among lots of categories to be redirected to the most relevant physician. However, manual selection is tedious and error prone activity. In this work we propose to assist the patients in this task by recommending a short list of most appropriate categories.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Studies in health technology and informatics
دوره 210 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2015