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This paper aims to explore how patient self-reporting data can enhance medical knowledge creation.

Patient Data as Medical Facts: Social Media Practices as a Foundation for Medical Knowledge Creation

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Web-based network collects patient-reported data to enhance medical knowledge, suggesting new research models.

This paper aims to explore how patient self-reporting data can enhance medical knowledge creation.
Investigated a web-based medical research network collecting patient self-reported health data.
Analyzed how patient participation breaks traditional expert-driven medical research culture.
Examined the network's data architecture designed to encode medical knowledge and capture patient life details.
Found that the network's patient data collection challenges traditional medical knowledge creation.
Identified the potential of the digital platform to redefine healthcare research approaches and data use.

Kallinikos et al. (2014) studied this question.

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