A Comparison of Internet Search Trends and Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates Using Google Trends
- 1 January 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Vol. 41 (1), 61-63
- https://doi.org/10.1097/olq.0000000000000065
Abstract
Google Trends was used to determine the relationship between sexually transmitted infection (STI)-related search engine trends and STI rates. Trends seem to be similar to the relative rates of STIs and to regional differences in rates. Search engine trends are an innovative tool to integrate into STI surveillance.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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