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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Main Author: Swan, Melanie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: JMIR Publications 2012-03-01
Series:Journal of Medical Internet Research
Online Access:http://www.jmir.org/2012/2/e46/