Problems and challenges in patient information retrieval : a descriptive study
Many patients now turn to the Web for health care information. However, a lack of domain knowledge and unfamiliarity with medical vocabulary and concepts restrict their ability to successfully obtain information they seek. The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify and classify the proble...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. - 1998. - (2001) vom: 11., Seite 329-33 |
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| Format: | Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2001
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Proceedings. AMIA Symposium |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article |
| Zusammenfassung: | Many patients now turn to the Web for health care information. However, a lack of domain knowledge and unfamiliarity with medical vocabulary and concepts restrict their ability to successfully obtain information they seek. The purpose of this descriptive study was to identify and classify the problems a patient encounters while performing information retrieval tasks on the Web, and the challenges it poses to informatics research. In this study, we observed patients performing various retrieval tasks, and measured the effectiveness of, satisfaction with, and usefulness of the results. Our study showed that patient information retrieval often failed to produce successful results due to a variety of problems. We propose a classification of patient IR problems based on our observations |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Completed 24.05.2002 Date Revised 13.11.2018 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1531-605X |