How breast cancer patients want to search for and retrieve information from stories of other patients on the Internet: An online randomized controlled experiment

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Overberg, Regina ^a   Otten, Wilma ^a   De Man, Andries ^a   Toussaint, Pieter ^b   Westenbrink, Judith ^c   Zwetsloot Schonk, Bertie ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c Amazones Foundation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Information retrieval; Internet; Life experiences; Patient satisfaction; Social support

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; SURVIVOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950952749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1215     Document Type: Article

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