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".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Consumer Health Information".
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 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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Burn Prevention in Spanish: Assessment of Content Accuracy, Website Quality, and Readability of Online Sources. J Burn Care Res. 2023 09 07; 44(5):1031-1040.
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Distrust, but use it anyway - adolescent online health-information searching behavior. J Pediatr. 2020 09; 224:179-183.
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Religious hospital policies on reproductive care: what do patients want to know? Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2018 02; 218(2):251.e1-251.e9.
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Internet resources for Tommy John injuries: what are patients reading? J Shoulder Elbow Surg. 2016 Dec; 25(12):e386-e393.
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Readability, relevance and quality of the information in Spanish on the Web for patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Reumatol Clin. 2017 May - Jun; 13(3):139-144.
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Health IT vendors and the academic community: The 2014 ACMI debate. J Biomed Inform. 2016 Apr; 60:365-75.
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Choosing wisely Canada: integrating stewardship in medical education. Acad Med. 2015 Nov; 90(11):1430.
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Symptom burden and information needs in prostate cancer survivors: a case for tailored long-term survivorship care. BJU Int. 2016 09; 118(3):372-8.
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Medical Inpatients' Use of Information Technology: Characterizing the Potential to Share Information Electronically. J Healthc Qual. 2015 Jul-Aug; 37(4):207-20.
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Launching a virtual decision lab: development and field-testing of a web-based patient decision support research platform. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2014 Dec 12; 14:112.