TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality of Answers in Healthcare Social Question Answering
AU - John, Blooma
AU - Wickramasinghe, Nilmini
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Healthcare Social Question Answering (SQA) services provide an open and free way to share knowledge and experience about health related enquires. Examples of healthcare SQA services are MedHelp, BabyHub and Drugs.com. The quality and the source of the questions and answers vary widely. Hence, we work towards identifying the factors that affect the quality of answers shared on SQA services. This paper thus facilitates the reuse of archived answers in health care SQA services.
AB - Healthcare Social Question Answering (SQA) services provide an open and free way to share knowledge and experience about health related enquires. Examples of healthcare SQA services are MedHelp, BabyHub and Drugs.com. The quality and the source of the questions and answers vary widely. Hence, we work towards identifying the factors that affect the quality of answers shared on SQA services. This paper thus facilitates the reuse of archived answers in health care SQA services.
KW - Healthcare social media
KW - Regression analysis
KW - Social Question Answering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056402788&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
SN - 0926-9630
VL - 252
SP - 69
EP - 72
JO - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
JF - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
ER -