Can Internet information on vertebroplasty be a reliable means of patient self-education?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 472, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1597-1604

  Sullivan, T Barrett ^a   Anderson, Joshua T ^a   Ahn, Uri M ^b   Ahn, Nicholas U ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b New Hampshire Neuro Spine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGY; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA COMPLICATION; ARTICLE; BONE CEMENT DEVICE; BRACE; CEMENT LEAK; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERNET; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MOBILIZATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELF EDUCATION; PEER REVIEW; PERCUTANEOUS VERTEBROPLASTY; PHYSICAL MOBILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RELIABILITY; REST; RIB FRACTURE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINE; SELF CONCEPT; SPINE FRACTURE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; WRITING;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; AUTHORSHIP; CERTIFICATION; HEALTH CARE SECTOR; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MARKETING OF HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRIVATE SECTOR; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VERTEBROPLASTY; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84899580197     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-3425-5     Document Type: Article

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