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Bob
"Eysenbach, Gunther" wrote:
> > A report in the BMJ (I think) last year cited a small but
> > very interesting study in the UK where
> > primary practitioners were questioned about patients bringing
> > information from the Web into
> > the office. Indeed, 50% had experienced such a situation.
> > They then asked whether
> > the practitioner through the exchange had learned new medical
> > information they did not previously know --- 50% of
> > the practitioners said they had.
>
> To be exact, this study was published in JMIR,
> see
>
> Wilson SM. Impact of the Internet on Primary Care Staff in Glasgow
> Journal of Medical Internet Research 1999;1(2):e7
> <URL: http://www.jmir.org/1999/2/e7/>
>
> 64.7% of the practitioners said the information which the patient brought
> was new to them.
>
> Greetings
>
> Gunther Eysenbach
> Editor, Journal of Medical Internet Research
> http://www.jmir.org
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: mike hogarth [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2001 17:27
> > An: [log in to unmask]
> > Betreff: Re: [MWM-L] report on medical use of email
> >
> > A quick comment
> >
> > >e-mail in a timely manner. Others say that communicating
> > with patients by
> > >> e-mail can be time-consuming and, by law, cannot be
> > billed. Also, many
> > >physicians noted that their patients come into the office
> > carrying stacks
> >
> > A report in the BMJ (I think) last year cited a small but
> > very interesting study in the UK where
> > primary practitioners were questioned about patients bringing
> > information from the Web into
> > the office. Indeed, 50% had experienced such a situation.
> > They then asked whether
> > the practitioner through the exchange had learned new medical
> > information they did not previously know --- 50% of
> > the practitioners said they had.
> >
> > I think physicians, like all of us, tend to put undue weight
> > on the "wasted internet material" when
> > there is good and bad from the exchange --- yes, there is
> > time wasted, but there are also situations in which
> > the material is actually new to the physician himself/herself
> > or the patient, through this exchange, has more
> > ownership over their care...
> >
> > Physicians are notorious for throwing the baby out with the
> > bath water...
> >
> > Aside from the patient communication, it still mystifies me
> > that physicians still haven't taken up e-mail for business
> > process types of things.
> > They like reading New York Times morning e-mails, but sending
> > a referral by e-mail... we would rather have it FAXed and
> > lost than use
> > something with the highest reliability of service of anything
> > known to man (if you consider the volume versus the missed
> > connections).
> >
> > --Mike Hogarth,MD
> >
> >
>
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