title: [1.5 Years of Bladder Blog: Questions on Incontinence Outside of the Doctor's Office].
abstract: Nowadays to ascertain medical history is not the only way of communication between the person concerned and the physician. Dealing with a complaint or a disease includes gaining information by surfing on the internet too. The internet offers blogs with the possibility to put a question anonymously. One of these blogs is part of the website "die Blase.de" of Dr. R. Pfleger Arzneimittel in Bamberg, Germany. The requests of 20 months have been evaluated. The typical user of this blog is female; thematically - side effects of a current therapy, seeking a solution for complex continence problems or a refractory therapy and capacity building measures were most frequent. The complexity of the particularised continence problems and the extensive searches for a qualified physician support the offer of an internet-based doctor's consultation in due consideration of a taboo topic such as urinary incontinence.
authors.affiliation: Urologische Abteilung, Evangelisches Krankenhaus Witten.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wiedemann
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, Helios Klinikum Erfurt.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Naumann
authors.affiliation: IFEM Multimedia GmbH, Simmerath.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Hermanns
authors.affiliation: Lehrstuhl für Geriatrie der Universität Witten/Herdecke.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Füsgen
authors.affiliation: Geriatrische Klinik und Tagesklinik, Helios Klinikum Schwelm.
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Heppner
mesh_terms: D057218:Blogging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D019114:Remote Consultation; D053201:Urinary Bladder, Overactive / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000628:therapy