What websites are patients using: results of a tracking study exploring patients use of websites at a multi-media patient education center.

Stephanie Ravitch; Linda Fleisher; Stephen Torres

What websites are patients using: results of a tracking study exploring patients use of websites at a multi-media patient education center.

Stephanie Ravitch, Linda Fleisher, Stephen Torres

Fox Chase Cancer Center

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Abstract: An exploratory study utilized computer tracking software at a hospital based patient education center was conducted to access use of the Web. During six months, 625 hits were tracked with 1/3 to www.cancer.gov one of the recommended websites, while over half of the sites were not on the recommended list. Here we report the challenges and results of this tracking study.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1092
Number of pages	1
Journal	AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
Volume	2005
State	Published - 2005

Keywords

Adult
Humans
Internet/statistics & numerical data
Multimedia
Neoplasms
Patient Education as Topic/methods
Patients

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