Patient-centered care is an important aspect of high-quality care. Health informatics,
particularly advances in technology, has the potential to facilitate, or detract from, patient …

Importance Manufacturers, companies, and health care professionals and organizations use
an array of promotional activities to sell and increase market share of their products and …

Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising (DTCPA) has grown rapidly during the past
several decades and is now the most prominent type of health communication that the public …

The cost of drugs is a major and rapidly rising component of health-care expenditures. We
survey recent literature on the ethics and economics of skyrocketing pharmaceutical prices …

Implications Because hundreds of millions of individuals use the Internet for health
information, it is not surprising that companies have moved into this area of marketing using …

Background: Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA), linked to inappropriate medication use
and higher health care expenditures, is the fastest growing form of pharmaceutical …

Background Many concerns have been raised about pharmaceutical companies marketing
their drugs directly to consumers on social media. This form of direct-to-consumer …

Purpose While patients often use the internet as a medium to search for and exchange
health‐related information, little is known about the extent to which patients use social media …

Objective: The aim of the current study is to develop culture specific, multidimensional and
self-report Cyberchondria Scale (CS) which can be used to evaluate one's emotional …

Social media has contributed positively to the interaction between proponents of medical
products and technologies and the public by permitting more direct interaction between …