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Cancer-related Complementary and Alternative Medicine Online: Factors Affecting Information Retrieval

机译:癌症相关的互补和替代医学在线:影响信息检索的因素

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Cancer patients increasingly turn to the Internet for health information. As the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is also increasing, we studied the likelihood that consumers will incidentally encounter CAM information while searching the Internet and the factors that influence CAM information retrieval. We evaluated results retrieved from ten cancer-related searches in six common search engines, and found that 16.2% of 1121 results contained CAM information. Sponsored (i.e. paid) results contained more CAM information than non-sponsored results (38% vs. 7.5%, p<0.001). Sponsored results in the Overture and Google search engines accounted for 51% and 39% of results on the first page. These search engines also retrieved the most CAM web pages. The type of cancer used as the search keyword did not influence the number of CAM-related web pages retrieved. However, the synonyms of cancer used as search keywords differed in their retrieval of CAM web pages (p<0.001). We conclude that clinicians should help consumers recognize sponsored listings and encourage search engines to clearly identify sponsored results.
机译:癌症患者越来越多地转向互联网进行健康信息。随着互补和替代医学(CAM)的使用也在增加,我们研究了消费者在寻找互联网时偶然遇到CAM信息的可能性以及影响CAM信息检索的因素。我们评估了六个常见搜索引擎中的10个与癌症相关的搜索中检索的结果,发现1121个结果的16.2%包含CAM信息。赞助(即支付)结果包含比非赞助结果更多的CAM信息(38%对7.5%,P <0.001)。在Overture和Google搜索引擎中赞助的结果占第一页的51%和39%的结果。这些搜索引擎还检索了最多的凸轮网页。用作搜索关键字的癌症类型不会影响所检测的CAM相关网页的数量。然而,作为搜索关键字使用的癌症的同义词在他们检索凸轮网页(P <0.001)中不同。我们得出结论,临床医生应该帮助消费者认可赞助商品,并鼓励搜索引擎清楚地确定赞助的结果。

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