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Patient opinion leaders can play a significant role in influencing healthcare options chosen by others. Such POLs have witnessed or suffered the symptoms of the disease, have realised the outcomes of various treatment options personally and can impress their views onto other patients and caretakers.
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Alternatively, this article could be moved to "Opinion leader in medicine", then have separate sections for describing patient opinion leaders and opinion leaders among health care providers. I just checked the research, and it seems that there is more about physician opinion leaders than patient
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who have gone through a lot during the course of the illness. Numerous blogs written by individuals considered as POLs are visited by thousands of people who either are suffering from similar disorders or are caring for their dear ones.
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become leaders in providing information about the disease and the outcomes of the treatment options. Such POLs have significant influence on readers who are either suffering from a disease or taking care of a diseased individual.
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or disease associations was very important. However, the physician shares the highest regard as 58% suggested that a physician had an extremely important role in choosing prescription medications.
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on topics that directly affect their healthcare choices. The survey reported that 59% of adults used online resources to obtain health and wellness information at that time.
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