Quality of health-related online search results
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Summary
Investigation of the quality of health information returned by popular search engines when queried using a large, comprehensive set of health-related search terms indicates that a majority of such information returned is of a high quality but quality levels vary across different health topic areas.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2014-01-01
- Cited by
- 126
- References
- 40
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Keywords
Quality (philosophy), Online search, Set (abstract data type), Health information, Variance (accounting)
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