TY - JOUR
T1 - A content analysis of online physician information
AU - Lin, Chia Chi
AU - Chiu, Ming Hsin Phoebe
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - The popularization of the Internet reduces the communication cost of physicians' information. It is easier for customers obtaining the online physicians' information to make medical decisions. Thus, this study aims to analyze the disclosure of physicians' information on the Internet, find out the contents, numbers, and the characteristic of physicians' personal information and professional information, and understand how the information describes physicians' image. The sample size is 4,500 which collected from the Google search engine, and the study framework contains the types of website, the physicians' personal information, the physicians' professional information, and the additional descriptions about physicians' image. This study conducts the content analysis, and the results are shown to provide some suggestions to the physician information seekers and physician information providers.
AB - The popularization of the Internet reduces the communication cost of physicians' information. It is easier for customers obtaining the online physicians' information to make medical decisions. Thus, this study aims to analyze the disclosure of physicians' information on the Internet, find out the contents, numbers, and the characteristic of physicians' personal information and professional information, and understand how the information describes physicians' image. The sample size is 4,500 which collected from the Google search engine, and the study framework contains the types of website, the physicians' personal information, the physicians' professional information, and the additional descriptions about physicians' image. This study conducts the content analysis, and the results are shown to provide some suggestions to the physician information seekers and physician information providers.
KW - Choosing a doctor
KW - Choosing a physician
KW - Content analysis
KW - Online physician information
KW - Physician information disclosure
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U2 - 10.6120/JoEMLS.201907_56(2).0015.RS.AM
DO - 10.6120/JoEMLS.201907_56(2).0015.RS.AM
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084303019
VL - 56
SP - 163
EP - 199
JO - Journal of Educational Media and Library Science
JF - Journal of Educational Media and Library Science
SN - 1013-090X
IS - 2
ER -