Assessment of Web-Based Consumer Reviews as a Resource for Drug Performance

• Main Authors: Adusumalli, Swarnaseetha (Author), Lee, HueyTyng (Author), Hoi, Qiangze (Author), Koo, Si-Lin (Author), Tan, Iain Beehuat (Author), Ng, Pauline Crystal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundSome health websites provide a public forum for consumers to post ratings and reviews on drugs. Drug reviews are easily accessible and comprehensible, unlike clinical trials and published literature. Because the public increasingly uses the Internet as a source of medical information, it i...