Utility of a Thematic Network in Primary Health Care: A Controlled Interventional Study in a Rural Area
- Topics:
- Healthcare Services
- Tags:
- BioMed Central,
- Health Care,
- Healthcare,
- Internet,
- Network,
- Networking,
- Rural Area,
- UniNet
- Source:
- BioMed Central
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Overview: UniNet is an Internet-based thematic network for a virtual community of users (VCU). It supports a virtual multidisciplinary community for physicians, focused on the improvement of clinical practice. This is a study of the effects of a thematic network such as UniNet on primary care medicine in a rural area, specifically as a platform of communication between specialists at the hospital and doctors in the rural area. The rural doctors had an effective, useful, user-friendly and cheap source of medical information that may have contributed to the improvement observed in the medical quality indices.
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Format: PDF | Size: 241KB | Date: Jul 2005 | Pages: 7
