What Is the Quality of Surgery-Related Information on the Internet? Lessons Learned from a Standardized Evaluation of 10 Common Operations

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 207, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 580-586

  Yermilov, Irina ^a,b   Chow, Warren ^b   Devgan, Lara ^c   Makary, Martin A ^c   Ko, Clifford Y ^a,b  

^a VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURGICAL SCIENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INTERNET; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 52949125599     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2008.04.034     Document Type: Article

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