Analyzing Information Seeking and Drug-Safety Alert Response by Health Care Professionals as New Methods for Surveillance

Conclusions: Understanding the information-seeking behavior associated with online evidence sources can offer insight into the information needs of health professionals and enable large-scale medical surveillance. Our Web log mining approach has the potential to monitor responses to FDA alerts at a national level. Our findings can also inform the design and content of evidence-based medical information resources such as UpToDate.

Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - August 20, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Alison CallahanIgor PernekGregor StiglicJure LeskovecHoward R StrasbergNigam Haresh Shah Source Type: research