Abstract:Objectives: There is a tremendous amount of effort put into creating and maintaining hospital and health care related websites with patient related disease information. Very few have evaluated patients’ use of these websites, and if patients with cancer use the internet more for research, versus those with non-cancer disease processes. We hoped to evaluate all patients in our surgery clinics to assess for differences in internet use with regards to age and disease process.
Methods: We surveyed 3… Show more
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