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S. A. Adams, A. A. De Bont

Notions of Reliability:Considering the Importance of Difference in Guiding Patients to Health Care Web Sites

Keywords: Internet user, health care, reliability, Internet health sites, qualitative research methods

OBJECTIVES: This article analyzes the efforts of three organizations to provide a standard that guides Internet users to reliable health care sites. METHODS: Comparison of health Internet sites, interviews and document studies. RESULTS: In comparing these approaches, three different constructions of reliability are identified. Conclusions: The resulting possibilities and restrictions of these constructions for users that are searching for health information on the Internet are revealed.

Methods of Information in Medicine, Schattauer

Print ISSN: 0026-1270
Volume: 42, 01/2003
Pages: 307 - 312

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