Representing vaccine misinformation using ontologies

Abstract Background In this paper, we discuss the design and development of a formal ontology to describe misinformation about vaccines. Vaccine misinformation is one of the drivers leading to vaccine hesitancy in patients. While there are various levels of vaccine hesitancy to combat and specific i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Muhammad Amith, Cui Tao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-08-01
Series:Journal of Biomedical Semantics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13326-018-0190-0