Associations Between Online Search Trends and Outpatient Visits for Common Medical Symptoms in the United States from 2004 to 2019: Time Series Ecological Study.

JMIR Form Res · 2025 · PMC12585001 · PMID 41187281

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0.0790

closest p · 1.6× alpha

0.0790

boldest claim

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close to significanceP =.079so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

From this, it can be said that there may be a weak association between internet searches and ambulatory visits, especially when considering that the cross correlation was close to significance ( P =.079), but there is not evidence presented to say definitively that one predicts the other.

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