At 15:11 28/11/96 -0000, Dr Paul Galloway wrote:
>Alan,
>
>Any evidence that health promotion material on the Web (or for that matter
>in the waiting room on PC, interactive CD-ROM or whatever) has any effect
>on health outcomes.
I have no measures on outcomes but I have a steady stream of friends /
associates asking for info on syndrome x / disease y that I can pull off the
net. Obviously all get a 'health warning' about the quality of such data,
people with axes to grind etc.
Far less daunting than trawling a medical library & a print-out can be read
at leisure. I see this as involving the patient, on the assumption (!) that
involvement leads to motivation.
The down-side is that you lucky doctors have to spend time explaining to a
patient why you don't think wacky treatment z is applicable to their case.
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