Systematic review of web sites for prospective medical tourists

N Lunt, P Carrera - Tourism Review, 2011 - emerald.com
Purpose–A key driver in the medical tourism phenomenon is the platform provided by the
internet for gaining access to healthcare information and advertising. Given the pivotal role …

[HTML][HTML] The promise and peril of using a large language model to obtain clinical information: ChatGPT performs strongly as a fertility counseling tool with limitations

J Chervenak, H Lieman, M Blanco-Breindel, S Jindal - Fertility and sterility, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective To compare the responses of the large language model-based “ChatGPT” to
reputable sources when given fertility-related clinical prompts. Design The “Feb 13” version …

[HTML][HTML] Nip, tuck and click: medical tourism and the emergence of web-based health information

N Lunt, M Hardey, R Mannion - The open medical informatics …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
An emerging trend is what has become commonly known as 'Medical Tourism'where
patients travel to overseas destinations for specialised surgical treatments and other forms of …

Why people living with and beyond cancer use the internet

MM Holmes - Integrative cancer therapies, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
People living with and beyond cancer suffer with a wide range of physical and psychological
symptoms. To manage the challenges associated with cancer, patients use a variety of self …

The QUEST for quality online health information: validation of a short quantitative tool

JM Robillard, JH Jun, JA Lai, TL Feng - BMC medical informatics and …, 2018 - Springer
Background Online health information is unregulated and can be of highly variable quality.
There is currently no singular quantitative tool that has undergone a validation process, can …

A model for online consumer health information quality

B Stvilia, L Mon, YJ Yi - Journal of the American Society for …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes a model for online consumer health information consisting of five
quality criteria constructs. These constructs are grounded in empirical data from the …

[HTML][HTML] Rare diseases on the internet: an assessment of the quality of online information

F Pauer, S Litzkendorf, J Göbel, H Storf, J Zeidler… - Journal of medical …, 2017 - jmir.org
Background The importance of the Internet as a medium for publishing and sharing health
and medical information has increased considerably during the last decade. Nonetheless …

A quality evaluation methodology for health-related websites based on a 2-tuple fuzzy linguistic approach

JM Moreno, JM Morales del Castillo, C Porcel… - Soft Computing, 2010 - Springer
Nowadays, the patients and physicians use the health-related websites as an important
information source and, therefore, it is critical the quality evaluation of health-related …

[HTML][HTML] Accuracy of Prospective Assessments of 4 Large Language Model Chatbot Responses to Patient Questions About Emergency Care: Experimental …

JYS Yau, S Saadat, E Hsu, LSL Murphy, JS Roh… - Journal of Medical …, 2024 - jmir.org
Background Recent surveys indicate that 48% of consumers actively use generative artificial
intelligence (AI) for health-related inquiries. Despite widespread adoption and the potential …

“I just googled and read everything”: exploring breast cancer survivors' use of the internet to find information on complementary medicine

MM Holmes, FL Bishop, L Calman - Complementary therapies in medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective Breast cancer survivors often turn to the internet as an information resource when
deciding whether to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) but their use of …