title: Using the Web to improve seniors' awareness of their role in preventing medical errors.
abstract: The purpose of this project was to assess the value of using the Web to teacholder consumers about their role in preventing medical errors. Consumers were recruited from a metropolitan Detroit senior community center. The majority of the participants had little or no experience with the Internet. After being taught how to use the computer and Internet, seniors completed a Web-based intervention on quality health care and medical errors. Seniors increased their knowledge about quality care and their role in preventing medical errors and highly rated the Websites.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich, USA. moermann@msn.com
authors.forename: Marilyn H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Oermann
authors.forename: JoJean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hamilton
authors.forename: Marley L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Shook
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001364:Awareness; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008824:Michigan; D008875:Middle Aged; D011787:Quality of Health Care