title: Consumer informatics: helping patients to access health information via the Internet.
abstract: Now that many patients independently access health information on the World Wide Web (WWW), healthcare professionals are becoming concerned with control and quality of information available there. The technology has the potential to help patients to become more self-sufficient in managing their own health care and outcomes. This paper examines the importance of developing mechanisms to assess the quality and content of health information websites.
authors.affiliation: Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rhodes
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*