نتایج جستجو برای: consumer health information

تعداد نتایج: 2056314  

Journal: :Research agenda brief 2002
Sandra Foote Lynn Etheredge

Consumer health information is important in two respects. It helps individuals improve their own health and creates pressure on the healthcare system to produce higher quality care. Initiatives to strengthen consumer health information services are underway in many public and private-sector organizations nationwide. This paper describes some trends in the field and opportunities to spur further...

Journal: :Studies in health technology and informatics 2004
Alexa T. McCray Nicholas C. Ide Russell R. Loane Tony Tse

Despite a growing number of available Web-based health information resources, consumers continue to face a variety of barriers as they attempt to access these resources. Developing a system that appropriately responds to user queries poses several challenges. Guided by an earlier study that analyzed a large number of queries submitted to ClinicalTrials.gov, we developed a variety of techniques ...

Journal: :Studies in health technology and informatics 2004
David Bomba Tim Land

Web-based consumer health information portals are on the increase. With such a large number of health related sites available, design and information quality are key concerns. This article provides an evaluation framework based on the work of Slack (2001) and the HONcode guidelines. Research shows that greater transparency is needed with regard to how rating instruments are constructed and vali...

2016
Kamal Sarkar Debanjan Das Indra Banerjee Mamta Kumari Prasenjit Biswas

In this paper, we describe the methodology used and the results obtained by us for completing the tasks given under the shared task on Consumer Health Information Search (CHIS) collocated with the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2016, ISI Kolkata. The shared task consists of two sub-tasks – (1) task1: given a query and a document/set of documents associated with that query, th...

2006
YunJung Lee JungKun Park Rick Widdows

E-health information has become an important resource for people seeking health information. Even though many studies have been conducted to examine the quality of e-health information, only a few studies have explored the effects of e-health information seekers’ motivations on perceived quality of e-health information. There is even less information about repeated search for e-health informati...

Journal: :AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium 2009
David F. Lobach Andrew Waters Garry M. Silvey Shelly J. Clark Sri Kalyanaraman Kensaku Kawamoto Isaac Lipkus

Millions of consumers seek health information on the Internet. Unfortunately, this searching often falls short because of design limitations of many consumer-oriented Web sites. In this paper, we describe an approach that addresses several known barriers to consumer health information seeking. This approach primarily involves maintaining the referential context throughout a consumer's search fo...

2008
ALLA KESELMAN

Design: Twenty participants were interviewed about their understanding of a hypothetical scenario about a family member suffering from stable angina and then searched MedlinePlus consumer health information portal for information on the problem presented in the scenario. Participants’ understanding of heart disease was analyzed via semantic analysis. Thematic coding was used to describe informa...

Journal: :Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 1998
Aaron E. Carroll Sunil Saluja Peter Tarczy-Hornoch

we applaud the intent of Fallis and Frické 1 in their recent attempt to provide the public with indicators of accuracy for health information on the Internet, we take exception to some of their methods and conclusions. The topic they have chosen to study is certainly an important one. There exists on the Internet a vast amount of health information , and much of it may be incorrect or easy to m...

2010
Khin Than Win

The focus of health care has changed from health care provider paternalistic approach to consumer focused approach. The aim of this study is to implement an online health information site for patient education of Diabetes. To achieve this, design criteria for effective patient education were considered and diabetes patients information site was implemented which includes patient information acc...

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