Open AccessQualidade da informação da internet disponível para pacientes em páginas em português
Author(s) -
A. Del Giglio,
Beatrice Abdala,
Carolina Ogawa,
Daniel Amado,
Diego Carter,
Fernanda Gomieiro,
Fernanda Salama,
Marina Shiroma,
Auro del Giglio
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
revista da associação médica brasileira
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.319
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1806-9282
pISSN - 0104-4230
DOI - 10.1590/s0104-42302012000600007
Subject(s) - medicine
Patients and their relatives often look for information about their diseases on the internet. Diabetes mellitus (DM), systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are the most prevalent in Brazil, thus, information on these pathologies is extremely searched for on the internet. For this reason, this study attempted to evaluate the quality of information available in Portuguese on the web regarding these disorders.