A study on health care consumers' diabetes term usage across identified categories

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate health care consumers’ diabetes term usage patterns based on Yahoo!Answers social question and answers (QA Diagnosis and Test; and Diagnosis and Medication) as well at the term level were analyzed. Findings – The findings show that there are close re...

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