The Brustkrebs-Studien.de website for breast cancer patients: User acceptance of a German internet portal offering information on the disease and treatment options, and a clinical trials matching service

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Wallwiener, Markus ^a,b   Wallwiener, Christian W ^a   Brucker, Sara Y ^b,c   Hartkopf, Andreas D ^c   Fehm, Tanja N ^c   Kansy, Julia K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PUBLIC OPINION; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; STATISTICS; TRUST;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES; TRUST;

EID: 78649548446     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-663     Document Type: Article

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