A Review of Digital Age Transformation in the Past 25 Years (1999-2024): Enhancing Patient-Physician Health Communication Model through Patient Empowerment for Effective Shared Decision-making (Preprint)
Mingming Song,
Joel Elson,
Dhundy Bastola
Abstract:BACKGROUND
The evolution of patient-physician communication has changed since the emergence of the World Wide Web. The internet has become an influential tool empowering patients with access to a breadth of health information. While such information has greatly facilitated communication between patients and physicians, it has also led to information overload and the opportunity to propagate misinformation. This could potentially result in suboptimal healthcare outcomes for patients. In … Show more
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