title: Medical nowcasting using Google Trends: application in otolaryngology.
abstract: Google Trends is a valuable new additional tool for medical research, mainly for epidemiological and economical issues, which is fast and inexpensive to use and may be especially helpful when analyzing patient collectives who go to general practitioners or specialists in private practice rather than public or university clinics, where data for statistics are most often collected from.
authors: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ludwig Maximilian University, 81377 Munich, Germany. thomas.braun@med.uni-muenchen.de
authors: Thomas
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authors: Braun
authors: Ulrich
authors: U
authors: Harréus
mesh_terms: D054626:Consumer Health Information; D057226:Information Seeking Behavior; D020407:Internet; D010036:Otolaryngology; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D064878:Web Browser