Detecting Lung Cancer Trends by Leveraging Real-World and Internet-Based Data: Infodemiology Study

• Main Authors: Xu, Chenjie (Author), Yang, Hongxi (Author), Sun, Li (Author), Cao, Xinxi (Author), Hou, Yabing (Author), Cai, Qiliang (Author), Jia, Peng (Author), Wang, Yaogang (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundInternet search data on health-related terms can reflect people's concerns about their health status in near real time, and hence serve as a supplementary metric of disease characteristics. However, studies using internet search data to monitor and predict chronic diseases at a geogra...