Informatics for Consumer Health
18/09/2012Harris Interactive: Harris Polls > “Cyberchondriacs” on the Rise?
18/09/2012Is engaging with online communities and web resources to acquire health information before a formal consultation helpful or dangerous?
A study published in Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives, examined how patients use the Internet to look up their illnesses and ‘self diagnose’, found that they only did so in order to be better informed.
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