Neeraj K. Arora

TL;DR: Clinicians and patients should maximize the therapeutic effects of communication by explicitly orienting communication to achieve intermediate outcomes associated with improved health.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that 63.0% of the US adult population in 2003 reported ever going online, with 63.7% (95% CI, 61.7%-65.8%) of the online population having looked for health information for themselves or others at least once in the previous 12 months.

TL;DR: Patients' information needs and sources along the continuum of care found that during diagnosis and treatment, information needs about the stage of disease, treatment options, and side-effects of treatment were prominent; during post-treatment, patients continued to need information about treatment, and information about recovery was also important.

TL;DR: The HINTS survey instrument was built upon extant models of health communication and behavior change, taking into account the rapidly changing communication environment, and questions in the survey were drawn from an overall theoretical framework that juxtaposed the “push” aspects of traditional broadcast media against the“pull” elements of new media.

TL;DR: A 3-dimensional taxonomy is proposed that characterizes uncertainty in health care according to its fundamental sources, issues, and locus and it is shown how this new taxonomy facilitates an organized approach to the problem of uncertainty inhealth care by clarifying its nature and prognosis and suggesting appropriate strategies for its analysis and management.