دورية أكاديمية
Facing internet fake-medicine and web para-pharmacy in the total absence of official recommendations from medical societies.
| العنوان: | Facing internet fake-medicine and web para-pharmacy in the total absence of official recommendations from medical societies. |
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| المؤلفون: | Mauri D; Department of Medical Oncology, University Hospital of Ioannina, Greece., Tsali L, P Polyzos N, Valachis A, Zafeiria G, Kalopita K, Tsiara A, Yerolatsite M, Zarkavelis G, Kampletsas E, Mouzaki I, Ntellas P, Filis P, Pentheroudakis G |
| المصدر: | Journal of B.U.ON. : official journal of the Balkan Union of Oncology [J BUON] 2019 Jul-Aug; Vol. 24 (4), pp. 1314-1325. |
| نوع المنشور: | Journal Article |
| اللغة: | English |
| بيانات الدورية: | Publisher: BAKIS Productions LTD Country of Publication: Cyprus NLM ID: 100883428 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 2241-6293 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 11070625 NLM ISO Abbreviation: J BUON Subsets: MEDLINE |
| أسماء مطبوعة: | Publication: 2021- : Nicosia : BAKIS Productions LTD Original Publication: Athens : Zerbinis Medical Publications |
| مواضيع طبية MeSH: | Internet*, Cachexia/*epidemiology , Neoplasms/*epidemiology, Anesthesiology/legislation & jurisprudence ; Anesthesiology/standards ; Cachexia/drug therapy ; Counterfeit Drugs ; Humans ; Medical Oncology/legislation & jurisprudence ; Neoplasms/drug therapy ; Patients/legislation & jurisprudence ; Societies, Medical/legislation & jurisprudence ; Societies, Medical/standards |
| مستخلص: | Purpose: Internet fake information, parapharmacy and counterfeit drugs are a market of hundreds of billion dollars. Misleading internet data decrease patients' compliance to medical care, promote use of questionable and detrimental practices, and jeopardize patient outcome. This is particularly harmful among cancer patients, especially when pain and nutritional aspects are considered. Provision of Web recommendations for the general audience (patients, relatives, general population) from official medical-providers might be useful to outweigh the detrimental internet information produced by non-medical providers. Methods: 370 oncology and anesthesiology related societies were analyzed. Our objective was to evaluate the magnitude of web-recommendation for cancer cachexia and cancer pain for the general audience provided by official medical organizations' web sites at global level. Results: Magnitude of web-recommendations at global level was surprisingly scant both for coverage and consistency. Seven official medical societies provided updated web-recommendation for cancer cachexia to their patients/family members, and 15 for cancer pain. Scantiness was unrelated by continent, developmental index, oncology tradition, economic-geographic area and society type scrutinized. Conclusions: Patients need expert advice when exposed to fake internet information largely dominated by paramedical market profits. In this era of "new media" the patients' net-education represents a new major educational challenge for medical societies. |
| المشرفين على المادة: | 0 (Counterfeit Drugs) |
| تواريخ الأحداث: | Date Created: 20191025 Date Completed: 20200305 Latest Revision: 20200305 |
| رمز التحديث: | 20231215 |
| PMID: | 31646774 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | MEDLINE |
| تدمد: | 2241-6293 |
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