[Air-l] Legitimacy of E-Health Medical Information

[Steve Fox (NLG)]

Has anybody researched the area of legitimacy of medical information in
online healthcare support communities? An example of this would be
analyzing online cancer newsgroups to a) see the amount of medical
information or advice that is disseminated, b) see who is providing
advice or medical information, and c) review the responses and any
actions that result from this advice.

I'm beginning a small project on this and it would be great to know if
anybody out there has done similar stuff or knows of any literature in
the area.

Cheers,

Steve