Predictors of Postal or Online Response Mode and Associations With Patient Experience and Satisfaction in the English Cancer Patient Experience Survey
Conclusions: In the context of a national survey of patients with cancer, online and postal responders tend to differ in their characteristics and rating of satisfaction. Associations between online response and reported experience were generally small and mostly nonsignificant, but with a tendency toward less than positive ratings, although not consistently. Whether the observed associations between response mode and reported experience were causal needs to be examined using experimental survey designs. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - May 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tra My Pham Gary A Abel Mayam Gomez-Cano Georgios Lyratzopoulos Source Type: research

Evaluating a Video-Based, Personalized Webpage in Genitourinary Oncology Clinical Trials: A Phase 2 Randomized Trial
Conclusions: This study is among the first to evaluate a video-based, personalized webpage that provides patients with educational videos and video recordings of clinical trial appointments. Despite not meeting the primary endpoint of reduced patient-initiated violations, this study demonstrates the feasibility of a video-based, personalized webpage in clinical trials. Future research assessing this tool might be better suited for realms outside of clinical trials and might consider the use of an endpoint that assesses patient-reported outcomes directly. A major limitation of this study was the lack of prior data for estim...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - May 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Rana McKay Hannah Mills Lillian Werner Atish Choudhury Toni Choueiri Susanna Jacobus Amanda Pace Laura Polacek Mark Pomerantz Judith Prisby Christopher Sweeney Meghara Walsh Mary-Ellen Taplin Source Type: research

Why Reviewing Apps Is Not Enough: Transparency for Trust (T4T) Principles of Responsible Health App Marketplaces
The overselling of health apps that may provide little benefit and even harm needs the health community’s immediate attention. With little formal regulation, a light-touch approach to consumer protection is now warranted to give customers a modicum of information to help them choose from the vast array of so-called health apps. We suggest 4 guiding principles that should be adopted to provide the consumer with information that can guide their choice at the point of download. We call these the Transparency for Trust (T4T) principles, which are derived from experimental studies, systematic reviews, and reports of patient c...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - May 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Til Wykes Stephen Schueller Source Type: research

Consumer Evaluation of the Quality of Online Health Information: Systematic Literature Review of Relevant Criteria and Indicators
Conclusions: Consumer evaluation of online health information is a complex cost-benefit analysis process that involves the use of a wide range of criteria and a much wider range of quality indicators. There are commonalities in the use of criteria across user groups and source types, but the differences are hard to ignore. Evidently, consumers’ health information evaluation can be characterized as highly subjective and contextualized, and sometimes, misinformed. These findings invite more research into how different user groups evaluate different types of online sources and a personalized approach to educate users about ...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - May 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Yalin Sun Yan Zhang Jacek Gwizdka Ciaran B. Trace Source Type: research

Development and Evaluation of a Web-Based Resource for Suicidal Thoughts: NowMattersNow.org
Conclusions: Survey respondents reported measurable reductions in intensity of suicidal thoughts and emotions, including those rating their suicidal thoughts as completely or almost completely overwhelming and among middle-aged men. Although results from this user-experience survey administered at one point in time to a convenience sample of users must be interpreted with caution, results provide preliminary support for the potential effectiveness of the NowMattersNow.org website as a tool for short-term management of suicidal thoughts and negative emotions. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - May 1, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ursula Whiteside Julie Richards David Huh Rianna Hidalgo Rebecca Nordhauser Albert J Wong Xiaoshan Zhang David D Luxton Michael Ellsworth DeQuincy Lezine Source Type: research

Data-Driven Blood Glucose Pattern Classification and Anomalies Detection: Machine-Learning Applications in Type 1 Diabetes
Conclusions: Despite the complexity of BG dynamics, there are many attempts to capture hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia incidences and the extent of an individual’s GV using different approaches. Recently, the advancement of diabetes technologies and continuous accumulation of self-collected health data have paved the way for popularity of machine learning in these tasks. According to the review, most of the identified studies used a theoretical threshold, which suffers from inter- and intrapatient variation. Therefore, future studies should consider the difference among patients and also track its temporal change over tim...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 30, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ashenafi Zebene Woldaregay Eirik Årsand Taxiarchis Botsis David Albers Lena Mamykina Gunnar Hartvigsen Source Type: research

“But His Yelp Reviews Are Awful!”: Analysis of General Surgeons’ Yelp Reviews
Conclusions: As the most common category of complaints was about physician demeanor, surgeons may optimize their Web-based reputation by improving their bedside manner. A surgeon’s Web presence, private practice, and the total number of reviews are significantly associated with both positive and negative reviews. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cynthia Liu Meka Uffenheimer Yosef Nasseri Jason Cohen Joshua Ellenhorn Source Type: research

Efficacy of a Web-Based Self-Management Enhancing Program for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Explorative Randomized Controlled Trial
Conclusions: Based on these results, it is not possible to conclude on the positive effects of the intervention or to select outcome measures to be regarded as the primary/main or secondary outcomes for a future trial. A process evaluation should be performed to provide more insight into the low compliance with and effectiveness of the intervention. This can determine for whom this sort of program will work and help to fine-tune the inclusion criteria. Trial Registration: Netherlands Trial Register NTR4871; https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/4726 (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Rixt Zuidema Sandra van Dulmen Maria Nijhuis-van der Sanden Inger Meek Cornelia van den Ende Jaap Fransen Betsie van Gaal Source Type: research

Technological Innovations in Disease Management: Text Mining US Patent Data From 1995 to 2017
Conclusions: This multifaceted analysis of patent documents provides a deep understanding of the focuses and trends of technological innovations in disease management in patents. Our findings offer insights into future research and innovation opportunities and provide actionable information to facilitate policy makers, payers, and investors to make better evidence-based decisions regarding resource allocation in biomedicine. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 29, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ming Huang Maryam Zolnoori Joyce E Balls-Berry Tabetha A Brockman Christi A Patten Lixia Yao Source Type: research

“It’s Not Just Technology, It’s People”: Constructing a Conceptual Model of Shared Health Informatics for Tracking in Chronic Illness Management
Conclusions: The resulting CoMSHI yields a more detailed and nuanced viewpoint of tracking in support of chronic illness management and can inform technology design to improve tracking tools to support people in more confident and capable chronic illness management. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lisa M Vizer Jordan Eschler Bon Mi Koo James Ralston Wanda Pratt Sean Munson Source Type: research

Crowdsourcing the Citation Screening Process for Systematic Reviews: Validation Study
Conclusions: Crowdsourcing of citation screening for SRs is feasible and has reasonable sensitivity and specificity. By expediting the screening process, crowdsourcing could permit the investigative team to focus on more complex SR tasks. Future directions should focus on developing a user-friendly online platform that allows research teams to crowdsource their reviews. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 28, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nassr Nama Margaret Sampson Nicholas Barrowman Ryan Sandarage Kusum Menon Gail Macartney Kimmo Murto Jean-Philippe Vaccani Sherri Katz Roger Zemek Ahmed Nasr James Dayre McNally Source Type: research

Improving Moderator Responsiveness in Online Peer Support Through Automated Triage
Conclusions: The triage system was generally accurate, and moderators were largely in agreement with how messages were prioritized. It had a modest effect on response ratios, primarily because moderators were already more likely to respond to high priority content before the introduction of triage. However, it significantly and substantially reduced the time taken for moderators to respond to prioritized content. Further evaluations are needed to assess the impact of mistakes made by the triage algorithm and how changes to moderator responsiveness impact the well-being of forum members. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: David N Milne Kathryn L. McCabe Rafael A. Calvo Source Type: research

The Relationship Between Personality Traits, Psychopathological Symptoms, and Problematic Internet Use: A Complex Mediation Model
Conclusions: Personality traits (ie, conscientiousness as a protective factor and neuroticism as a risk factor) play a significant role in problematic internet use, both directly and indirectly (via distress level). (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Beatrix Koronczai Gy öngyi Kökönyei Mark D Griffiths Zsolt Demetrovics Source Type: research

Wearable Proximity Sensors for Monitoring a Mass Casualty Incident Exercise: Feasibility Study
Conclusions: Our study shows the feasibility of the use of wearable sensors for tracking close contacts among individuals during an MCI simulation. It represents, to our knowledge, the first example of unsupervised data collection—ie, without the need for the involvement of observers, which could compromise the realism of the exercise—of face-to-face contacts during an MCI exercise. Moreover, by permitting detailed data collection about the simulation, such as data related to the flow of patients in the hospital, such deployment provides highly relevant input for the improvement of MCI resource allocation and managemen...
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Laura Ozella Laetitia Gauvin Luca Carenzo Marco Quaggiotto Pier Luigi Ingrassia Michele Tizzoni Andr é Panisson Davide Colombo Anna Sapienza Kyriaki Kalimeri Francesco Della Corte Ciro Cattuto Source Type: research

Using Machine Learning to Derive Just-In-Time and Personalized Predictors of Stress: Observational Study Bridging the Gap Between Nomothetic and Ideographic Approaches
Conclusions: We conclude that for some applications, nomothetic models may be useful for yielding higher initial performance while still surfacing personalized predictors of stress, before switching to ideographic models upon sufficient data collection. (Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research)
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 25, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Alan Rozet Ian M Kronish Joseph E Schwartz Karina W Davidson Source Type: research