ArticleThe open medical informatics journal2010
Nip, tuck and click: medical tourism and the emergence of web-based health information.
Article in The open medical informatics journal, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Changing Discourse of Healthism: A Contextual Analysis.Sociology of health & illness · 2025Article
- Achieving sustainable medical tourism: unpacking privacy concerns through a tripartite game theoretic lens.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The north-south policy divide in transnational healthcare: a comparative review of policy research on medical tourism in source and destination countries.Globalization and health · 2020Review
- The Theory of Planned Behaviour in Medical Tourism: International Comparison in the Young Consumer Segment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Complications of Cosmetic Surgery Abroad - Cost Analysis and Patient Perception.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2019Article
- Identification of the requirements for designing medical tourism information system of Iran.Journal of education and health promotion · 2019Article
- Understanding medical travel from a source country perspective: a cross sectional study of the experiences of medical travelers from the Maldives.Globalization and health · 2018Article
- Role, structure and effects of medical tourism in Africa: a systematic scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2017Article
- Regulated and Unregulated Clinical Trials of Stem Cell Therapies for Stroke.Translational stroke research · 2017Article
- Designing a Medical Tourism Website: A Qualitative Study.Iranian journal of public health · 2017Article
- Physicians as medical tourism facilitators in Nigeria: ethical issues of the practice.Croatian medical journal · 2016Article
- International Patients' Travel Decision Making Process- A Conceptual Framework.Iranian journal of public health · 2016Review
- "You don't want to lose that trust that you've built with this patient...": (dis)trust, medical tourism, and the Canadian family physician-patient relationship.BMC family practice · 2015Article
- "It Was the Best Decision of My Life": a thematic content analysis of former medical tourists' patient testimonials.BMC medical ethics · 2015Article
- UK medical tourists in Thailand: they are not who you think they are.Globalization and health · 2014Article
- Promoting social responsibility amongst health care users: medical tourists' perspectives on an information sheet regarding ethical concerns in medical tourism.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2013Article
- Canadian family doctors' roles and responsibilities toward outbound medical tourists: "Our true role is ... within the confines of our system".Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien · 2013Article
- Knowledge brokers, companions, and navigators: a qualitative examination of informal caregivers' roles in medical tourism.International journal for equity in health · 2013Article
- "Do your homework…and then hope for the best": the challenges that medical tourism poses to Canadian family physicians' support of patients' informed decision-making.BMC medical ethics · 2013Article
- "You're dealing with an emotionally charged individual...": an industry perspective on the challenges posed by medical tourists' informal caregiver-companions.Globalization and health · 2013Article
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Abstract
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 medical care. With the rise of more affordable cross-border travel and rapid technological developments these movements are becoming more commonplace. A key driver is the platform provided by the internet for gaining access to healthcare information and advertising. There has been relatively little attention given to the role and impact of web-based information to inform Medical Tourism decisions.This article provides a brief overview of the most recent development in Medical Tourism and examines how this is linked to the emergence of specialized internet web sites. It produces a summary of the functionality of medical tourist sites, and situates Medical Tourism informatics within the broader literatures relating to information search, information quality and decision-making.This paper is both a call to strengthen the empirical evidence in this area, and also to advocate integrating Medical Tourism research within a broader conceptual framework.
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