Consumer Health Information Survey
Non-active Survey

ONLINE HEALTH INFORMATION

22.  Please indicate the degree to which you think it is important that your hospital provide patients and consumers with access to Internet-based health resources and services.  Please check only one response.

This is critically important to fulfilling our mission and we are doing it.  
This is critical and something we should be doing but are not.
This is not critical but something we are currently doing.
This is not critical and something we do not do.

23. Please indicate the degree to which you feel it is important that patients and consumers have access to each of the following Internet-based health information resources.

Important: This information resource is important for patients and consumers to have.
Neither Important nor Unimportant: This resource is neither important nor unimportant for patients and consumers to have.
Unimportant: This information resource is not important for patients and consumers to have.
Don't Know: I am not familiar with this resource.

Internet-based Consumer Health Information Resources
Important
Neither Important nor Unimportant
Unimportant
Don't Know
ClinicalTrials.gov
MayoClinic.com
MedlinePlus.gov
NIHSeniorHealth.gov
WebMD.com
Other (Please name)        

24. Prior to receiving this questionnaire, had you heard about the National Library of Medicine's patient education tool Information Rx or similar services that encourage health care providers to refer patients to high quality health information resources on the Internet?




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