Exploring and Developing Consumer Health Vocabularies
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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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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1067-5027,1527-974X
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.m1761