The Effect of Online Health Information Seeking on Physician-Patient Relationships: Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The internet has now become part of human life and is constantly changing people's way of life. With the increasing popularity of online health information (OHI), it has been found that OHI can affect the physician-patient relationship by influencing patient behaviors.

Objective

This study aims to systematically investigate the impact of OHI-seeking behavior on the physician-patient relationship.

Methods

Literature retrieval was conducted on 4 databases (Web of Science, PubMed, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, SinoMed), and the time limit for literature publication was before August 1, 2021.

Results

We selected 53 target papers (42 [79%] English papers and 11 [21%] Chinese papers) that met the inclusion criteria. Of these, 31 (58%) papers bel

SUBMITTER: Luo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8874798 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature