Medical Information on the Internet. The Classification of Evaluation Systems.
| Session: Possibilities and Use
of the Internet and Paid-for Information Resources in Medicine and Health Care |
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Jiří Menoušek, Louny Hospital, semi-budgetary organization. The Center for
scientific informations; Czech Republic
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| Abstract: |
Assessment of the medical information is historically well known problem. New
questions were raised with the emergence of new, more or less anonymous medium, internet. In the global internet ocean,
there live delicious fishes together with not so good or inedible fishes as well as poisonous or otherwise dangerous
ones. As an example we can demonstrate it on one Italian study which assessed different types of recommendations
on the home management of fever in children and on two other examples.
In our presentation we rate some important internet resources - fulltext databases (OVID, PROQUEST, EIFL DIRECT …)
and some well known medical information services (Cochrane Collaboration, OMNI, HON …).
We tried to establish our own classification of evaluation systems:
- automated software evaluation systems (fuzzy logic …)
- systems of indirect evaluation (scientometric) via citation index, impact factor, and internet impact factor
- systems of direct evaluation (lay, well-informed and expert evaluation)
In closing remarks the author reminds four pillars of quality management of health information on the web:
- to educate the users
- to encourage self-labeling
- evaluation and certification of information by a third-party
- enforcement measures on the web (network of hotlines)
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Other papers in this session:
- Telemedicine and Information Society : Project e-Europe+ 2003
(Jiří Bakala, Bata Hospital Zlín; Czech Republic
Co-authors: P. Minář, B. Kadlčíková, M. Krajčová, Bata
Hospital Zlín)
- Tumour Diagnostics on the Internet - And Forget About the Thick Old
Books (Václava Smitková, University Hospital in Pilsen; Czech Republic)
- Obtaining relevant evidences of clinical problems - cooperation
between the librarian and the physician (Eva Lesenková, Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education; Czech
Republic
Co-authors: Jitka Feberová, Institute of Medical Informatics, 2nd Medical Faculty of Charles
University)
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break ()
- Using the Ovid platform at the Medical Faculty of Palacký
University in Olomouc: summarizing five-year experience and current opportunities (Jarmila Potomková,
Information Centre of the Medical Faculty of Palacký University and the Faculty Hospital in Olomouc; Czech
Republic
Co-authors: I. Daubnerová, K. Langová, Information Centre of the Medical Faculty of Palacky
University and the)
- Comparison of literature search software programs SilverPlatter a
OVID form perspective of the Czech user (Jana Hercová, National Medical Library; Czech Republic
Co-authors: Adéla
Jarolímková, Jarmila Langová, Scientific Medical Library of the Institute of Clnical & Experimental Medicine)
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Consortium Project (Reiner Klimesch, Ovid Technologies; Germany)
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