Quality-of-life research on the Internet: feasibility and potential biases in patients with ulcerative colitis.
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a new communications medium that permits investigators to contact patients in nonmedical settings and study the effects of disease on quality of life through self-administered questionnaires. However, little is known about the feasibility and, what is more important, the validity of this approach. An on-line survey for patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and patients whose UC had been treated with surgical procedures was developed [...]
Author(s): Soetikno, R M, Mrad, R, Pao, V, Lenert, L A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1997.0040426