Patients and families use blogs as illness narratives to describe and cope with chronic
illness.
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Blogs are websites that are updated with posts usually written by a single author
and contain unsolicited 1st-person perspectives on a particular subject.
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Patient blogs offer insight into living with chronic illness from a 1st-person perspective.
Blogs can be a data source for providers to increase their knowledge of challenges
experienced by patients, as well as a data source for qualitative research. In this
letter, we aim to describe considerations associated with blog research and to describe
our experience using blogs for a qualitative study of heart transplant candidates'
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Published online: August 22, 2017
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- 2.that all authors have read and approved the manuscript.
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