Consumer Health Information
"Consumer Health Information" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Information intended for potential users of medical and healthcare services. There is an emphasis on self-care and preventive approaches as well as information for community-wide dissemination and use.
| Descriptor ID |
D054626
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I02.233.332.186 N02.421.726.407.229
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Consumer Health Information".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Consumer Health Information" by people in this website by year, and whether "Consumer Health Information" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Consumer Health Information" by people in Profiles.
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Beauharnais CC, Aulet T, Rodriguez-Silva J, Konen J, Sturrock PR, Alavi K, Maykel JA, Davids JS. Assessing the Quality of Online Health Information and Trend Data for Colorectal Malignancies. J Surg Res. 2023 03; 283:923-928.
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Maheshwari D, Kunycky C, Jia X, Tangada A, Leung K, Solomon ER. Patient-Focused Websites Related to Postpartum Pelvic Floor Health: A DISCERN Quality Analysis. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2022 04 01; 28(4):240-243.
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Para A, Thelmo F, Rynecki ND, Zelman B, Gupta R, Coban D, Ayyaswami V, Prabhu AV, Ippolito JA, Agarwal N, Moore JM, Beebe KS. Evaluating the Readability of Online Patient Education Materials Related to Orthopedic Oncology. Orthopedics. 2021 Jan 01; 44(1):38-42.
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Kamath P, Zheng R, Narasimman M, Ayyaswami V, Prabhu AV, Hansberry D, Agarwal N, Koch E. Evaluation of online patient education materials concerning skin cancers. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2021 Jan; 84(1):190-191.
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Waring ME, McManus DD, Amante DJ, Darling CE, Kiefe CI. Online health information seeking by adults hospitalized for acute coronary syndromes: Who looks for information, and who discusses it with healthcare providers? Patient Educ Couns. 2018 11; 101(11):1973-1981.
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Hargraves JL, Bonollo D, Person SD, Ferguson WJ. A randomized controlled trial of community health workers using patient stories to support hypertension management: Study protocol. Contemp Clin Trials. 2018 06; 69:76-82.
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Maitland A, Lin A, Cantor D, Jones M, Moser RP, Hesse BW, Davis T, Blake KD. A Nonresponse Bias Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS). J Health Commun. 2017 07; 22(7):545-553.
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Cutrona SL, Mazor KM, Agunwamba AA, Valluri S, Wilson PM, Sadasivam RS, Finney Rutten LJ. Health Information Brokers in the General Population: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey 2013-2014. J Med Internet Res. 2016 06 03; 18(6):e123.
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Longo DR, Crabtree BF, Pellerano MB, Howard J, Saver B, Hannan EL, Lee J, Lundberg MT, Sabo R. A Qualitative Study of Vulnerable Patient Views of Type 2 Diabetes Consumer Reports. Patient. 2016 06; 9(3):231-40.
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Solomon ER, Janssen K, Krajewski CM, Barber MD. The Quality of Health Information Available on the Internet for Patients With Pelvic Organ Prolapse. Female Pelvic Med Reconstr Surg. 2015 Jul-Aug; 21(4):225-30.