What predicts patients' interest in the internet as a health resource in primary care in England?

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-39

  Mead, Nicola ^a   Varnam, Robert ^a   Rogers, Anne ^a   Roland, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERNET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE MEDICINE; SUBURBAN POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 12244258204     PISSN: 13558196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/13558190360468209     Document Type: Article

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