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- Title
A new age for cancer information seeking: are we better off now?
- Authors
Helft, Paul R.
- Abstract
A decade after the dawn of the Internet Age, are people who seek health information better off than they used to be? The current study by Arora and colleagues examines a small slice of the massive Health Information National Trends Survey dataset and attempts to understand the experiences of those US adults who have sought cancer information at any point in their lives from any source. One third reported that the information they encountered was hard to understand, and one half questioned the quality of the information they found. Several research questions regarding how individuals successfully find information on the Internet remain to be answered.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL education; HEALTH education; MEDICAL research; PRIMARY care; PREVENTIVE medicine; INTERNAL medicine; HEALTH education standards; TUMOR prevention; RESEARCH; INTERNET; INFORMATION services; RESEARCH methodology; PATIENT satisfaction; MEDICAL cooperation; EVALUATION research; COMPARATIVE studies; HEALTH attitudes; FORECASTING; MEDICAL informatics; PATIENT education
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, Vol 23, Issue 3, p350
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-007-0496-6