5. The online conversation
about health is being driven
forward by two forces:
1) the availability of social
tools
2) the motivation, especially
among people living with
chronic conditions, to
connect with each other.
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11. Trasladando el valor de
este indicador al total de
la población,
29,9% de los
ciudadanos
utilizaría Internet
como fuente de
información en el
ámbito sanitario
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15. Thirty‐five percent of U.S.
adults say that at one
time or another they have
gone online specifically to
try to figure out what
medical condition they or
someone else might have
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25. espectacular
Percentage of correct
diagnoses from Google
searches (compared with the
diagnoses as published in the New
England Journal of Medicine).
Google searches revealed
the correct diagnosis in 15
(58%)
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26. ….y los profanos
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The average diagnostic success of non-physicians was 22.1% (95% confidence interval [CI] 4.5-39.7%).
32. Bouwman M G et al. Arch Dis Child 2010;95:642-644
The authors present two
cases in which concerned
parents made a correct
diagnosis of a lysosomal
storage disorder in their child
by searching the internet
after a long doctor’s delay.
These cases illustrate the utility of publicly
available internet search engines in
diagnosing rare disorders and in addition
illustrate the lengthy diagnostic odyssey
which is common in these disorders
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44. Cyberchondria
Utilizamos el término cyberchondria
para referirse a la escalada infundada
de preocupaciones sobre
sintomatología común, basado en la
revisión de resultados de búsqueda en
la Web
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