Controlled vocabularies for consumer health
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منابع مشابه
Exploring and developing consumer health vocabularies.
Laypersons ("consumers") often have difficulty finding, understanding, and acting on health information due to gaps in their domain knowledge. Ideally, consumer health vocabularies (CHVs) would reflect the different ways consumers express and think about health topics, helping to bridge this vocabulary gap. However, despite the recent research on mismatches between consumer and professional lan...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biomedical Informatics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1532-0464
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2003.09.015