The Patient-Physician Relationship in the Internet Age: Future Prospects and the Research Agenda

By B. Gerber, A. Eiser. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2001

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In the "Internet Age," physicians and patients have unique technological resources available to improve the patient-physician relationship. How they both utilize online medical information will influence the course of their relationship and possibly influence health outcomes. The decision-making process may improve if efforts are made to share the burden of responsibility for knowledge. Further benefits may arise from physicians who assist patients in the information-gathering process. However, further research is necessary to understand these differences in the patient-physician relationship along with their corresponding effects on patient and physician satisfaction as well as clinical outcomes.

Subfields: General Health Professions

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Patients using the Internet to obtain health information: how this affects the patient-health professional relationship. (2006, background): “Gerber and Eiser [30] call this scenario the ‘Internet prescription’.”