Patients’ use of the internet for medical information

By Joseph A. Diaz, R. A. Griffith, James J. Ng, S. Reinert, P. Friedmann, A. Moulton. Journal of general internal medicine, 2002

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A Systematic Review of Patient Inflammatory Bowel Disease Information Resources on the World Wide Web (2007, background): “The Internet is increasingly used by patients including those suffering from IBD (8, 9).”
Effects of Task Difficulty on Use of Advice (2007, background): “5% of the surveyed patients used the Internet for health information, on a broad range of medical topics (Diaz et al., 2002).”
Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America (2013, background): “After a doctor’s appointment, individuals seek out information on diagnoses, tests, and prescriptions to learn more (Diaz et al., 2002).”
Understanding Health Literacy for Strategic Health Marketing: eHealth Literacy, Health Disparities, and the Digital Divide (2008, background): “…rural areas have lower levels of access and usage as compared with their higher socioeconomic status and urban counterparts (Cotten and Gupta, 2004; Diaz et al., 2002; Dutta-Bergman, 2003; Eriksson-Backa, 2003; Hindman, 2000; Jackson et al., 2004; Lazarus and Wainer, 2005; Marks and Lutgendorf,…”
Factors affecting home care patients' acceptance of a web-based interactive self-management technology (2011, result): “This study also found that perceived usefulness significantly influenced self-reported use, consistent with previous research.(37) Patients who felt that the health technology was useful for their disease reported a higher usage of the technology.”