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Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics

Susannah Fox | July 16, 2010

The Pew Internet & American Life Project will soon go into the field with our next health survey and we need your help. One of our core findings (8 in 10 internet users, or about two-thirds of U.S. adults, look online for health information) is based on a series of questions that is tweaked in [...]

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Crowdsourcing a Survey: Reassured? Overwhelmed? Eager? Confused?

Susannah Fox | November 5, 2008

The Pew Internet Project is finalizing our fall health survey and we are now in the painful cut phase. Here’s a question I’m hoping to save in a shorter form: At any point in your last search for health information online did you feel any of the following things? At any point, did you feel…?

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41% of Adults are “Activated Patients”

Susannah Fox | October 21, 2008

The Center for Studying Health System Change has released another information-packed report, How Engaged Are Consumers in Their Health and Health Care, and Why Does It Matter. The researchers created a “Patient Activation Measure” and apparently 41% of adults are what we might call e-patients (empowered, equipped, etc.).