E-health research and patient-centered care examining theory, methods, and application.

摘要

Population-based surveys in the U.S. and Europe have indicated that a growing majority of individuals are looking to technologies, such as the Internet, for health information. Still, the public continues to rely on and trust health professionals to provide and interpret health information, and individuals are bringing the information acquired through technologic channels to health professionals to ask more refined and specific questions.3'5 Thus, communications and interactions with healthcare providers remain important for patients to help decipher and interpret the information they are increasingly obtaining via technology.