How can research keep up with eHealth? Ten strategies for increasing the timeliness and usefulness of Ehealth research

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Baker, Timothy B ^a   Gustafson, David H ^b   Shah, Dhavan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimental designs; Health communication; Internet; Patient education; Patient engagement; Randomized clinical trials; Research techniques; Social media; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; HISTORY; HUMAN; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT ENGAGEMENT; RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESEARCH TECHNIQUES; SOCIAL MEDIA; STANDARD; TELEMEDICINE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS; HEALTH COMMUNICATION; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT ENGAGEMENT; RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS; RESEARCH TECHNIQUES; SOCIAL MEDIA; TELEMEDICINE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84897602958     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2925     Document Type: Review

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