Online health information impacts patients' decisions to seek emergency department care.
Objective: To investigate the impact of online health information (OHI) and patients' decisions to seek emergency department (ED) care. Methods: We conducted a survey of a convenience sample of 489 ambulatory patients at an academic ED between February and September 2006. The primary measure was the...
| Publicado en: | Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health Vol. 12; no. 2; pp. 174 - 178 |
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Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
2011 May
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