"What does this mean?" How Web-based consumer health information fails to support information seeking in the pursuit of informed consent for screening test decisions

Journal of the Medical Library Association

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 363-373

  Burkell, Jacquelyn ^a   Campbell, D Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ARTICLE; CONSUMER; DECISION MAKING; DOWN SYNDROME; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; MAMMOGRAPHY; MATERNAL SERUM; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDLINE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PROSTATE CANCER; SCREENING TEST; BLOOD; CANADA; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; STANDARD; UNCERTAINTY;

CANADA; DECISION MAKING; DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INFORMED CONSENT; INTERNET; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 27144489581     PISSN: 15365050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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