Online advice dodgy

July 15, 2015

Googling or otherwise seeking advice online for your medical symptoms interpretation is dodgy with wide variations in accuracy of diagnosis an triage, according to Harvard Medical School researchers. Medical scientists tested 23 online “symptom checkers” - run by brand names such as the Mayo Clinic, the American Academy of Pediatrics and WebMD, as well as lesserknowns such as Symptomate and found that “as a whole they were astonishingly inaccurate.” Symptom checkers provided the correct diagnosis first in only 34% of cases, and within the first three diagnoses only 51% of the time, the researchers said.

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Online advice dodgy

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