Provider-sponsored virtual communities for chronic patients: improving health outcomes through organizational patient-centred knowledge management. Export

@article{citeulike:902397, abstract = {Patients with long-term chronic disease experience numerous illness patterns and disease trends over time, resulting in different sets of knowledge needs than patients who intermittently seek medical care for acute or short-term problems. Health-care organizations can promote knowledge creation and utilization by chronic patients through the introduction of a virtual, private, disease-specific patient community. This virtual socialization alters the role of chronic disease patients from external consumers of health-care services to a 'community of practice' of internal customers so that, with the tacit support of their health-care organization, they have a forum supporting the integration of knowledge gained from the experiences of living with chronic disease in their self-management. Patient-centred health-care organizations can employ the virtual community to direct and support the empowerment of chronic patients in their care.}, address = {Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. w.winkelman@utoronto.ca}, author = {Winkelman, W. J. and Choo, C. W.}, citeulike-article-id = {902397}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1369-7625.2003.00237.x}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1369-7625.2003.00237.x}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15040797}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=15040797}, doi = {10.1046/j.1369-7625.2003.00237.x}, issn = {1369-6513}, journal = {Health Expect}, keywords = {communication, informatics, online, provider, social, socialnetwork, supportgroup}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {352--358}, posted-at = {2006-10-17 23:58:18}, priority = {5}, title = {Provider-sponsored virtual communities for chronic patients: improving health outcomes through organizational patient-centred knowledge management.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1369-7625.2003.00237.x}, volume = {6}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:902397 L3 - citeulike-article-id:902397 N2 - Patients with long-term chronic disease experience numerous illness patterns and disease trends over time, resulting in different sets of knowledge needs than patients who intermittently seek medical care for acute or short-term problems. Health-care organizations can promote knowledge creation and utilization by chronic patients through the introduction of a virtual, private, disease-specific patient community. This virtual socialization alters the role of chronic disease patients from external consumers of health-care services to a 'community of practice' of internal customers so that, with the tacit support of their health-care organization, they have a forum supporting the integration of knowledge gained from the experiences of living with chronic disease in their self-management. Patient-centred health-care organizations can employ the virtual community to direct and support the empowerment of chronic patients in their care. IS - 4 JF - Health Expect SN - 1369-6513 AD - Centre for Global eHealth Innovation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. w.winkelman@utoronto.ca EP - 358 TI - Provider-sponsored virtual communities for chronic patients: improving health outcomes through organizational patient-centred knowledge management. VL - 6 SP - 352 KW - communication KW - informatics KW - online KW - provider KW - social KW - socialnetwork KW - supportgroup AU - Winkelman, WJ AU - Choo, CW PY - 2003/12// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1369-7625.2003.00237.x ER -