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. 2013 Mar 26;8(3):e59963. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059963

Table 1. Characteristics of physician response in the different websites: answer length and proportion professional medical terms in the answer.

Website Average response length (number of words) [CI 95%] Proportion of words using medical terminology [CI 95%]
NetDoctor (UK) 190 [187–193] 21.4% [21.3%–21.4%]
AskTheDoctor (Canada) 121 [119–123] 25.7% [25.5%–25.9%]
WebMD (USA) 109 [107–111] 21.8% [21.7%–22.0%]
BeOK (Israel) 35 [34.6–35.7] 29.9% [29.7%–30.0%]