Health Care Resources on the Internet最新文献

Searching the Internet for Diseases 在互联网上搜索疾病

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-5

A. Mayo, Cynthia R. Phyillaler

引用次数: 0

Consumer Health Information on the Internet 互联网上的消费者健康信息

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-6

J. M. Coggan

{"title":"Consumer Health Information on the Internet","authors":"J. M. Coggan","doi":"10.1201/9781003249450-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003249450-6","url":null,"abstract":"we applaud the intent of Fallis and Frické 1 in their recent attempt to provide the public with indicators of accuracy for health information on the Internet, we take exception to some of their methods and conclusions. The topic they have chosen to study is certainly an important one. There exists on the Internet a vast amount of health information , and much of it may be incorrect or easy to misinterpret. The authors' call for impartial valida-tors of such information should be cheered. Nevertheless, we have some methodological concerns with their recent study. The first concern involves their choice of clinical subject matter. The authors claim that managing childhood fever in the home was chosen \" because there is a wide consensus among experts in this area. \" 1 This issue is a point of significant contention among pedi-atricians. 2–4 Even the five topics covered in their methods are sure to spark many debates among health care professionals. 5–7 We consider it an important omission that the authors did not provide the \" correct \" answers or cite the experts who provide the consensus to the five topics set forth in the paper. We wonder how much of the information that was labeled inaccurate by the authors was merely a reflection of differences in practice. If this same topic were brought up in a pediatric journal, we believe that reaching a consensus on what is \" correct \" would be difficult. Without clear consensus, there can be no gold standard. Without a gold standard, there can be no measure of accuracy. The second concern is over the methodology used for selection of Web sites. The authors provide no criteria as to how they decided which 100 sites to analyze. Given the enormous number of possible sites, it would be critical to know who selected sites and how they decided which ones to select. Without such information, the study cannot be repeated or understood fully, nor can possible selection bias be ascertained. The third concern we have is the definition of \" accurate \" and \" inaccurate \" sites. The authors arbitrarily set the dividing line between accurate and inaccurate at the median of the sites' ratings. Although they did confirm their results using several different cutoffs , we are concerned with the use of these terms at all. Their accuracy scores range from 0.55 to 0.75, with the vast …","PeriodicalId":306711,"journal":{"name":"Health Care Resources on the Internet","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123184774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

MEDLINE on the Internet 互联网上的MEDLINE

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-4

Valerie G. Rankow

引用次数: 0

Searching International Medical Resources on the World Wide Web 在万维网上搜索国际医疗资源

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-11

J. A. Risin

引用次数: 0

Health-Related Statistical Information on the Net 网上健康统计信息

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-9

D. Littleton, K. Robbins

引用次数: 0

Alternative Medicine on the Net 网络上的替代医学

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-7

S. Shultz, N. I. Henry, E. Dell

引用次数: 0

Use of the Internet at the Reference Desk 在参考咨询台使用互联网

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-1

N. Calabretta

引用次数: 0

Megasites for Health Care Information 大型医疗保健信息网站

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-3

Cindy A. Gruwell, S. Marsalis

引用次数: 0

Natural Language and Beyond: Tips for Search Services 自然语言及其他:搜索服务提示

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-2

E. P. Delozier

引用次数: 0

Electronic Journals on the Internet 互联网上的电子期刊

Health Care Resources on the Internet Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1201/9781003249450-10

V. A. Lingle

引用次数: 0