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Title: |
Engineering a virtual community for breast cancer patients |
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Author: |
Yvonne Arnold, Miriam Daum, Helmut Krcmar 
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Address: |
Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany. ' Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany. ' Information Systems Department (I 17), Technische Universitat Munchen Boltzmannstr. 3, Garching bei Munchen 85748, Germany |
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Journal: |
International Journal of Web Based Communities 2005 - Vol. 1, No.2 pp. 150 - 162 |
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Abstract: |
There are several challenges in the field of community engineering in the health care domain: to achieve the greatest congruency between the patients' needs and the services of the platform, potential users need to get involved in the development process and an evaluation of the conceptualised product is necessary. |
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Keywords: |
healthcare communities; community engineering; community
evaluation; web-based communities; breast cancer patients; online communities. |
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DOI: |
10.1504/IJWBC.2005.006060 |
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