Internet Medical and Health Information

• General Information

Internet Medical and Health Information

General Information

NEWS:

Attacking Their HONor

Health websites no threat to GPs

Warning on internet health advice

ARTICLES:

Internet is indeed useful source for patients with cancer

Medical products and the Internet: A guide to finding reliable information (1999)

Online Communities: Helpful If You're Careful

Younger physicians, specialists use Internet more

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

[A model for integrating biomedical research information] (Recenti Prog Med)

Accessibility, nature and quality of health information on the Internet: a survey on osteoarthritis. (Rheumatology (Oxford))

Accuracy of emergency medical information on the web. (Am J Emerg Med)

An evaluation of web-based information. (Int J Eat Disord)

Arthritis information on the Web and its influence on patients and physicians: a Korean study. (Clin Exp Rheumatol)

Assessing websites on complementary and alternative medicine for cancer (Annals of Oncology)

Cystic fibrosis on the Internet: a survey of site adherence to AMA guidelines. (Pediatrics)

Do the Leading Children's Hospitals have Quality Web Sites? A Description of Children's Hospital Web Sites (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

Efficacy of Quality Criteria to Identify Potentially Harmful Information: A Cross-sectional Survey of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Web Sites. (J Med Internet Res)

Evaluation of the quality and contents of diabetes mellitus patient education on Internet. (Patient Educ Couns)

Finding qualitative research: an evaluation of search strategies. (BMC Med Res Methodol)

Health Attitudes, Health Cognitions, and Health Behaviors among Internet Health Information Seekers: Population-Based Survey (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

How the internet affects patients' experience of cancer: a qualitative study (BMJ)

Inaccurate Information About Lyme Disease on the Internet. (Pediatr Infect Dis J)

Information retrieval in respiratory care: tips to locate what you need to know. (Respir Care)

Informing, advising, or persuading? An assessment of bone mineral density testing information from consumer health websites. (Int J Technol Assess Health Care)

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy and the Internet. (Cancer)

Internet Usage by Low-literacy Adults Seeking Health Information: An Observational Analysis (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

Open Sesame? Increasing Access to Medical Literature (PEDIATRICS)

Ophthalmology on the internet: what do our patients find? (Arch Ophthalmol)

Optimal search strategies for retrieving scientifically strong studies of diagnosis from Medline: analytical survey (BMJ)

Patient education and the internet: do patients want us to provide them with medical web sites to learn more about their medical problems? (J Emerg Med)

Patient use of the Internet for health care information in Switzerland. (Swiss Med Wkly)

Positive attitudes and failed queries: an exploration of the conundrums of consumer health information retrieval. (Int J Med Inf)

Presentation on websites of possible benefits and harms from screening for breast cancer: cross sectional study (BMJ)

Proposed curricular objectives to teach physicians competence in using the World Wide Web. (Acad Med)

Reformulation of Consumer Health Queries with Professional Terminology: A Pilot Study (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

Searching the internet for information on prostate cancer screening: an assessment of quality. (Urology)

The Effect of Top-Level Domains and Advertisements on Health Web-site Credibility (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

The importance of being expert: the quest for cancer information on the Internet. (Soc Sci Med)

The Internet's impact on the practice of psychiatry. (Can J Psychiatry)

The Role of the Internet in Patient–practitioner Relationships: Findings from a Qualitative Research Study (Journal of Medical Internet Research)

Two-thirds of physicians use Web in clinical practice (CMAJ)

What do patients with prostate or breast cancer want from an Internet site? A qualitative study of information needs. (Patient Educ Couns)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH-How To Evaluate Health Information on the Internet: Questions and Answers

NIH-NIAMS How to Find Medical Information

NLM/NIH-Drug Information

NLM/NIH-Finding Medical Information in MEDLINE

NLM/NIH-MedlinePlus in the News

NLM/NIH-National Library of Medicine Guide to Finding Health Information

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