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Health information on the Internet : strategies for assessing consumer needs and improving consumer information retrieval
Patients and their family members are increasingly turning to the Internet for health information. However, the search strategies consumers are using to obtain information are often unsuccessful. Since some patients are using the information they obtain to influence health decisions, it is …
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Age differences in making credibility judgments of online health information
Older adults constitute a notable group among the exponentially growing population of online health information consumers. To better support their consumption of high quality health information on the Internet, it is important to understand how older adults make credibility judgments of online …