ArticleCanadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien2014
Health information on the Internet: gold mine or minefield?
Article in Canadian family physician Medecin de famille canadien, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 140 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
140 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Response rate differences between web and alternative data collection methods for public health research: a systematic review of the literature.International journal of public health · 2018Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Topic-Based Chatbots on Mental Health Self-Care and Mental Well-Being: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- The Effects of a Web-Based Tool for Parents of Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- The catastrophization effects of an MRI report on the patient and surgeon and the benefits of 'clinical reporting': results from an RCT and blinded trials.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2021Trial
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- A Multimodal AI Framework for Medical Education: Integrating Adaptive Image Retrieval, Fast Synthesis, and LLM-Based Clinical Auditing.Journal of imaging · 2026Article
- Qualitative thematic analysis of online forum discussions on post-radiation prostate cancer survivorship.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2026Article
- Classification of Cochrane Plain Language Summaries by Conclusiveness Using Transformer-Based Models and ChatGPT: Retrospective Observational Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Observational
- Determining health information needs among older adolescents (15-19 years): A survey in Geneva, 2023.Preventive medicine reports · 2026Article
- Quality and readability of Turkish online patient information websites on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.BMC health services research · 2026Article
- Association of Electronic Health Literacy With Self-Care and Health Outcomes Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Quality Analysis of YouTube and Facebook Videos for Glaucoma Treatment Options.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Psychometric properties and factor structure of the short form of the cyberchondria severity scale (CSS-12) amongst Indian adults.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Large Language Models Show Comparable Response Performance but Vary in Readability Regarding Patient Questions on Hip Arthroscopy.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Readability of Online Patient-Directed Content About Cystoscopy and Urodynamic Testing.International urogynecology journal · 2025Article
- Risk, Responsibility, and Prevention in Injury Management: Implications of Concussion (mis)education on Youth Athlete Knowledge Uptake.Communication & sport · 2025Article
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- Internet use for health information, health service utilization, and quality of care in the U.S.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Qualitative Assessment of Quality and Readability of Patient-Directed Arabic Online Resources for Cochlear Implants in Children.International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2025Article
- Changes in Health Education Literacy After Structured Web-Based Education Versus Self-Directed Online Information Seeking in Patients Undergoing Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery: Nonrandomized, Controlled Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
80 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.
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Identifiers
24828994PMC4020634What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.