Crowdsourced Health Research Studies: An Important Emerging Complement to Clinical Trials in the Public Health Research Ecosystem
BackgroundCrowdsourced health research studies are the nexus of three contemporary trends: 1) citizen science (non-professionally trained individuals conducting science-related activities); 2) crowdsourcing (use of web-based technologies to recruit project participants); and...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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JMIR Publications
2012-03-01
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Series: | Journal of Medical Internet Research |
Online Access: | http://www.jmir.org/2012/2/e46/ |