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Online health searches are common and may be impacting patients and their relationships with their clinicians in ways that are not fully understood. We searched PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Reviews, Cochrane Trials, Scopus, and CINAHL from January 1, 1990 to January 29, 2016 for studies in which patients searched online for any aspect of health care and then visited their clinician. We extracted data pertaining to either patients' or clinicians' perceptions of the effects of these online searches on patients and the patient-clinician relationship. Searches seemed to induce patient anxiety but more often led to patient reassurance, clinical understanding, and empowerment. Patients tended to perceive that online health searches had a positive effect on the patient-clinician relationship, although the nature of the effect could depend on the clinician's response to patient queries about the information. Clinicians generally perceived neutral effects on patients and the patient-clinician relationship and commonly raised concerns about the accuracy of online content. Significant methodologic heterogeneity prevented quantitative synthesis. Accuracy of online health search content was not ass

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Author

Jane Wang; Tamara Ashvetiya; Emmanuel Quaye; Kapil Parakh; Seth S. Martin

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)