Use of the Internet by parents of paediatric patients

Aim:  We aimed to determine the rate of Internet use for obtaining medical information by health‐care patients at a tertiary paediatric hospital, whether the Internet may influence patients’ attitudes to health‐care services and health‐care providers and whether patients would prefer the assistance of a professional informatics officer.

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