Looking for answers, constructing reliability: An exploration into how Dutch patients check web-based medical information

International Journal of Medical Informatics

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-72

  Adams, Samantha ^a   Bont, Antoinette De ^a   Berg, Marc ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Medical end users; Reliability of information; World wide web

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RELIABILITY; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; MEDICAL END USERS; RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION;

HEALTH CARE;

ARTICLE; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; EVALUATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 30444444388     PISSN: 13865056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2005.07.036     Document Type: Article

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