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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Pourmand, Ali, Sikka, Neal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2011-05-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0zd6c0fs