Do Americans Get Outdated Medical Data Online?
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › October 31, 2006
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About 113 million Americans have looked for health information or medical advice on the Internet. They usually start such a quest by using a search engine. And most of them don't check the date or the source of the information they find to determine how much weight it should be given.
Those are among the findings of a just-released survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The report, written by Pew associate director Susannah Fox, was based on a telephone survey of 2,928 adults conducted in August.See the full content of this document
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Do Americans Get Outdated Medical Data Online?
Besides finding that 80 percent of American Internet users seek health information online, the survey found that 10 perce...
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