Can people find patient decision aids on the Internet?

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 557-560

  Morris, Debra ^a   Drake, Elizabeth ^a,b   Saarimaki, Anton ^a   Bennett, Carol ^a   O'Connor, Annette ^a,b  

^a OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consumer Health Information; Decision support technologies; Internet; Patient decision aids; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTHRITIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; LEIOMYOMA; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; VOCABULARY, CONTROLLED;

EID: 55949119790     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2008.07.046     Document Type: Article

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