TITLE

Doctors join patients in going online for health information

AUTHOR(S)

DAWSON, JUNE

PUB. DATE

March 2010

SOURCE

New Media Age;3/25/2010, p07

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Opinion

ABSTRACT

The article reports on a survey conducted by health company Kantar Health which revealed that almost all doctors in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain use the Internet to look for information that is related to their profession. 70% of the 1,000 respondents surveyed claim that they use physician portals such as Doctors.net and Univadis. Quite unexpectedly, 55% also claim that they use Wikipedia as another source of health information.

ACCESSION #

49259197

 

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