IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 2787: Measuring Relevant Information in Health Social Network Conversations and Clinical Diagnosis Cases

IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 2787: Measuring Relevant Information in Health Social Network Conversations and Clinical Diagnosis Cases International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph15122787 Authors: Albert Moreira Raul Alonso-Calvo Alberto Muñoz José Crespo The Internet and social media is an enormous source of information. Health social networks and online collaborative environments enable users to create shared content that afterwards can be discussed. The aim of this paper is to present a novel methodology designed for quantifying relevant information provided by different participants in clinical online discussions. The main goal of the methodology is to facilitate the comparison of participant interactions in clinical conversations. A set of key indicators for different aspects of clinical conversations and specific clinical contributions within a discussion have been defined. Particularly, three new indicators have been proposed to make use of biomedical knowledge extraction based on standard terminologies and ontologies. These indicators allow measuring the relevance of information of each participant of the clinical conversation. Proposed indicators have been applied to one discussion extracted from PatientsLikeMe, as well as to two real clinical cases from the Sanar collaborative discussion system. Results obtained from indicators in the tested cases have been compared with clinical expert opinions to check indicators v...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Article Source Type: research