Search Statistics
- About 7 million people search for health related information on the Internet each day in the US
- 77% of these people get their health information through search engines
- 64% of patients use the Internet as their first source to research on a medical condition
- 55% of users search for medical treatment or procedure information over the Internet
Are they reliable?
A recent survey from the NCBI indicated that among the search results, 19/57 were identified as correct to the questions asked.
The rest were coded as incorrect due to:
The rest were coded as incorrect due to:
- Information being tangentially relevant
- Not addressing the question directly
- Answer being incorrectly phrased
- Appearing on an unreliable webpage
- Information being outdated
Help Our Patients
Get a complete list of queries posted by patients in a chronological sequence. You will only receive questions which belong to your subject or speciality. You can easily see the number of unread messages and identify them by color coding. Answer the questions in details and attach relevant documents or pictures to support your answer.