RT Book, Section
A1 Cucina, Russ
A2 Papadakis, Maxine A.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1165970870
T1 Social Media & Websites in Clinical Practice
T2 Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2020
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260455281
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1165970870
RD 2021/03/01
AB Many  clinicians,  either  individually  or  through  their  practice  group,  maintain  a  website  or  social  media  presence  as  a  service  to  their  patients.  For  the  individual  practitioner  or  small  group,  very  affordable  web  authoring  and  hosting  services  are  available  commercially.  Large  groups  and  institutions  typically  maintain  their  own  websites  and  assist  individual  providers  in  representing  themselves  in  a  standardized  way.  Offering  clinical  information  to  patients  or  communicating  patient-related  health  information  over  the  Internet  requires  consideration  of  ethical  and  legal  issues.  Providing  medical  content  can  be  construed  as  formal  medical  advice.  As  always,  general  patient  education  material  and  online  recommendations  should  be  followed  by  instructions  directing  patients  to  first  discuss  any  suggested  lifestyle  or  medication  changes  with  a  clinician  before  adoption.