Abstract 249: Quality of Medical Advice Provided Online Between Anonymous Members of a Message Board for Implanted Defibrillator Patients [Session Title: Poster Session PM]

Conclusions: Patients use online medical information to understand conditions and treatment options. A number of efforts have been made to understand the quality of professionally-created educational content, while ours describes the quality of advice being provided between anonymous members of an online message board. The quality of advice varied considerably, both by topical area and the specificity of advice. This analysis provides a methodologic model by which to describe the quality of patient-generated material available online.

Source: Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes - April 5, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Knoepke, C., Slack, D. H., Matlock, D., Marzec, L. Tags: Session Title: Poster Session PM Source Type: research