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- Title
BRIEF REPORT: Development of a Prescription Medication Information Webliography for Consumers.
- Authors
Yu Ko; Brown, Mary; Frost, Rowan; Woosley, Raymond L.
- Abstract
BACKGROUND: Websites offering drug information vary in coverage and quality, and most health care consumers are poorly equipped to assess the quality of internet medication information. OBJECTIVE: To establish a webliography of recommended prescription medication information websites for health care consumers and providers. DESIGN AND METHODS: Drug information websites were systematically identified based on recommendations from health professionals and text-word searches of MEDLINE and Google. The resulting sample of websites was evaluated in a 2-step process. Candidate websites were first screened using inclusion/exclusion criteria representing minimum information requirements. Websites that passed the inclusion/exclusion criteria were then rated on 16 quality criteria using a 5-point scale by 3 trained judges. Website ratings were averaged, then multiplied by the corresponding importance weight of each criterion and summed to generate a total score. Websites with the highest total scores were included in the webliography. RESULTS: Ten websites were selected for inclusion in the webliography. The 3 highest-scoring websites were Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield (http://home.anthemhealth.com/topic/drugcenter), U.S. National Library of Medicine (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation. html), and Healthvision (http://www.yourhealthinformation.com/library/healthguide/en-us/drugguide/default.htm). CONCLUSION: Medication information websites vary widely in quality and content. The online webliography is a valuable and easily accessed tool that can be recommended by health care professionals to patients who request referral to reliable websites.
- Subjects
WEBSITES; MEDICAL informatics; DRUG prescribing; INTERNET in medicine; MEDLINE; MEDICAL personnel; CONSUMERS
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006, Vol 21, Issue 12, p1313
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1525-1497.2006.00620.x