Open AccessWhen Do Patients With Hand Illness Seek Online Health Consultations and What Do They Ask?
Author(s) -
Jan Paul Briët,
Michiel G.J.S. Hageman,
Robin D. Blok,
David Ring
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
clinical orthopaedics and related research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.178
H-Index - 204
eISSN - 1528-1132
pISSN - 0009-921X
DOI - 10.1007/s11999-014-3461-9
Subject(s) - medicine , ask price , medline , family medicine , political science , law , economics , economy
Several websites allow people to post health questions and get answers from doctors. Knowing more about what patients seek from these websites might help in-office educational efforts, but little is known about what occurs on these sites.