Table 3.

Characterization of e-patients

Equipped	Possessing skills to manage their own condition.
Enabled	Make choices about self-care and finding those choices respected.
Excellent patient-care	Promote centre of excellence, centre of clinical trials, networks.
Engaged	Engaged in their own care.
Expert patients	Able to improve their self-rated health status; cope with generic features of chronic disease and dependence on hospital care; able to share their experience and convince other patients.
Evaluating	Evaluate not only the information found but also the source of that information; establishing trust in sources at an early stage (website of the trial, information by and the patient during a trial).
Equal	The e-patient expects to be an equal member of the team in partnership with professionals involved in their care.