source evidence and help patients to make informed treatment decisions. There is a risk that misinformation may lead patients in the wrong direction, which will then be a burden on the practitioner and negatively influence treatment outcomes. Datamining and crowdsourcing is a methodological system that gathers individual self-reported results from the Internet and converts it into credible RWE. For this patient, it increased the trustworthiness of the information and helped decrease anxiety about the treatment decision. Used appropriately, it has the potential to inform treatment decisions, help predict outcomes, and be a tool for post marketing surveillance that can be used to inform health technology assessment.
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