Quality of consumer drug information provided by four Web sites
Quality of consumer drug information provided by four Web sites
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DOI：
10.1093/ajhp/56.22.2308
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发表时间：
1999-11-15
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Markoff, JS
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作者：
Hatfield, CL;May, SK;Markoff, JS
研究了消费者在互联网上可获得的药物特定信息的质量。选择了 30 种最常配发的处方药来代表消费者寻求信息的药物。开发了网页评估表，以客观地评估每个站点的赞助商、参考文献、更新的最新程度、易用性、整体组织和其他特征。开发了第二种形式来定性和定量评估网站提供的药物信息。对四个互联网网站 MedicineNet、RxList、Drug Info-Net 和 Throwonline 进行了评估。其中三个网站的作者、贡献者和参考文献均已确定，所有网站都有免责声明，建议患者寻求医疗保健专业人员的建议，所有药物信息均按品牌名称和通用名称编制索引，并且组织良好。只有 RxList 和 MedicineNet 包含所有评估药物的信息。对于记录的药物，RxList、MedicineNet、Drug InfoNet 和 Throwonline 分别包含评估的 22 个变量的 84%、60%、87% 和 72%。所有网站所提供信息的准确性均超过 98%。包含消费药物信息的四个互联网站点中只有两个包含正在评估的所有处方药。这四个网站上的大部分信息（但并非全部）都是准确的。
The quality of drug-specific information available to consumers on the Internet was studied.The 30 most commonly dispensed prescription drugs were selected to represent those medications for which consumers would be seeking information. A Web page evaluation form was developed to objectively evaluate each site in terms of sponsors, references, recency of updates, ease of use, overall organization, and other characteristics. A second form was developed to qualitatively and quantitatively assess the drug information provided by the sites.Four Internet sites, MedicineNet, RxList, Drug Info-Net, and thriveonline, were evaluated. Authors, contributors, and references were identified for three of the sites, All sites had disclaimers advising patients to seek the advice of a health care professional, all indexed drug information by both brand name and generic name, and all were well organized.Only RxList and MedicineNet contained information on all the drugs evaluated. For the drugs documented, RxList, MedicineNet, Drug InfoNet, and thriveonline contained 84%, 60%, 87%, and 72% of the 22 variables assessed, respectively. The accuracy of the information provided was greater than 98% for all the sites. Only two of four Internet sites containing consumer drug information included all the prescription drugs being evaluated. Most but not all of the information on the four sites was accurate.