Novel data sources for women's health research: mapping breast screening online information seeking through Google trends.

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Abstract

Millions of people use online search engines everyday to find health-related information and voluntarily share their personal health status and behaviors in various Web sites. Thus, data from tracking of online information seeker's behavior offer potential opportunities for use in public health surveillance and research. Google Trends is a feature of Google which allows Internet users to graph the frequency of searches for a single term or phrase over time or by geographic region. We used Google Trends to describe patterns of information-seeking behavior in the subject of dense breasts and to examine their correlation with the passage or introduction of dense breast notification legislation.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Acad Radiol

Title: Academic radiology

ISSN (Electronic): 1878-4046

ISSN (Print): 1076-6332

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2014

Volume: 21

Issue: 9

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[1 ] Department of Radiology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, University Hospital Floor B2 Rm A209H, 1500 E Medical Center Dr SPC 5030, Ann Arbor, MI 4810. Electronic address: soodabeh.fazeli@gmail.com.

[2 ] Department of Radiology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, University Hospital Floor B2 Rm A209H, 1500 E Medical Center Dr SPC 5030, Ann Arbor, MI 4810; Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[3 ] Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Institute for Social Research, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

[4 ] Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Publisher Item ID: S1076-6332(14)00185-8 Mid ID: NIHMS677636

DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2014.05.005

PMC ID: 4399798

PubMed ID: 24998689

SO-VID: 72ffa33b-7d09-461a-84d5-7d7b5072c81a

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Keywords: Dense breast,Google Trends,information seeking,legislation

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Keywords: Dense breast, Google Trends, information seeking, legislation

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