Wikipedia: A key tool for global public health promotion

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Heilman, James M ^a,b   Kemmann, Eckhard ^c   Bonert, Michael ^d   Chatterjee, Anwesh ^e   Ragar, Brent ^f   Beards, Graham M ^g   Iberri, David J ^h   Harvey, Matthew ^i,j   Thomas, Brendan ^k   Stomp, Wouter ^l   Martone, Michael F ^m   Lodge, Daniel J ⁿ   Vondracek, Andrea ^o   De Wolff, Jacob F ^p   Liber, Casimir ^q,r   Grover, Samir C ^d   Vickers, Tim J ^s   Meskó, Bertalan ^t   Laurent, Michaël R ^u  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Moose Jaw Union Hospital   (Canada)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e POOLE HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g MANOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

ⁱ ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^l LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^m RUSH MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^o UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^q Bankstown Health Service   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^s WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^u UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

more..

Author keywords

Health information; Internet; Knowledge dissemination; Medical education; Patient education; Public health; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; EVALUATION; HEALTH; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PUBLIC HEALTH;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; ENCYCLOPEDIAS AS TOPIC; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 79953077551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1589     Document Type: Review

References (71)

1. Kummervold PE, Chronaki CE, Lausen B, Prokosch HU, Rasmussen J, Santana S, et al. eHealth trends in Europe 2005-2007: a population-based survey. J Med Internet Res 2008;10(4):e42 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.2196/jmir.1023] [Medline: 19017584]
2. Hesse BW, Nelson DE, Kreps GL, Croyle RT, Arora NK, Rimer BK, et al. Trust and sources of health information: the impact of the Internet and its implications for health care providers: findings from the first Health Information National Trends Survey. Arch Intern Med 2005;165(22):2618-2624 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.1001/archinte.165.22.2618] [Medline: 16344419] (Pubitemid 41785059)
3. Trotter MI, Morgan DW. Patients' use of the Internet for health related matters: a study of Internet usage in 2000 and 2006. Health Informatics J 2008 Sep;14(3):175-181. [doi: 10.1177/1081180X08092828] [Medline: 18775824]
4. Fox S, Jones S. Pew Internet. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project; 2009. The social life of health information URL: http://www.pewinternet.org/~/media//Files/Reports/2009/PIP-Health-2009.pdf [accessed 2010-07-12] [WebCite Cache ID 5rB3F1iXr]
5. Iverson SA, Howard KB, Penney BK. Impact of internet use on health-related behaviors and the patient-physician relationship: a survey-based study and review. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2008 Dec;108(12):699-711 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 19075034]
6. Atkinson NL, Saperstein SL, Pleis J. Using the internet for health-related activities: findings from a national probability sample. J Med Internet Res 2009;11(1):e4 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.2196/jmir.1035] [Medline: 19275980]
7. Bouche G, Migeot V. Parental use of the Internet to seek health information and primary care utilisation for their child: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health 2008;8:300 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-8- 300] [Medline: 18755029]
8. Zhang Y, Jones B, Spalding M, Young R, Ragain M. Use of the Internet for Health Information Among Primary Care Patients in Rural West Texas. South Med J 2009 May 7. [doi: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181a52117] [Medline: 19434029]
9. Khoo K, Bolt P, Babl FE, Jury S, Goldman RD. Health information seeking by parents in the Internet age. J Paediatr Child Health 2008 Aug;44(7-8):419-423. [doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1754.2008.01322.x] [Medline: 18564080] (Pubitemid 352000280)
10. Dickerson S, Reinhart AM, Feeley TH, Bidani R, Rich E, Garg VK, et al. Patient Internet use for health information at three urban primary care clinics. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2004;11(6):499-504. [doi: 10.1197/jamia.M1460] [Medline: 15298993] (Pubitemid 39421734)
11. Murray E, Lo B, Pollack L, Donelan K, Catania J, Lee K, et al. The impact of health information on the Internet on health care and the physician-patient relationship: national U.S. survey among 1.050 U.S. physicians. J Med Internet Res 2003;5(3):e17 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.2196/jmir.5.3.e17] [Medline: 14517108]
12. Schwartz KL, Roe T, Northrup J, Meza J, Seifeldin R, Neale AV. Family medicine patients' use of the Internet for health information: a MetroNet study. J Am Board Fam Med 2006 Feb;19(1):39-45 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 16492004] (Pubitemid 44046992)
13. Health On the Net Foundation. Analysis of 9th HON Survey of Health and Medical Internet Users, Winter 2004 - 2005 URL: http://www.hon.ch/Survey/ Survey2005/res.html [accessed 2010-05-17] [WebCite Cache ID 5po7vrbiJ]
14. Bylund CL, Gueguen JA, D'Agostino TA, Imes RS, Sonet E. Cancer patients' decisions about discussing Internet information with their doctors. Psychooncology 2009 Nov;18(11):1139-1146. [doi: 10.1002/pon.1511] [Medline: 19137507]
15. Eysenbach G, Powell J, Kuss O, Sa ER. Empirical studies assessing the quality of health information for consumers on the world wide web: a systematic review. JAMA 2002;287(20):2691-2700 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 12020305] (Pubitemid 34533548)
16. Ritterband LM, Borowitz S, Cox DJ, Kovatchev B, Walker LS, Lucas V, et al. Using the internet to provide information prescriptions. Pediatrics 2005 Nov;116(5):e643-e647 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.1542/peds.2005-0404] [Medline: 16263978] (Pubitemid 46056394)
17. D'Alessandro DM, Kreiter CD, Kinzer SL, Peterson MW. A randomized controlled trial of an information prescription for pediatric patient education on the Internet. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2004 Sep;158(9):857-862 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.1001/archpedi.158.9.857] [Medline: 15351750] (Pubitemid 39181086)
18. Coberly E, Boren SA, Davis JW, McConnell AL, Chitima-Matsiga R, Ge B, et al. Linking clinic patients to Internet-based, condition-specific information prescriptions. J Med Libr Assoc 2010 Apr;98(2):160-164. [doi: 10.3163/1536-5050.98.2.009] [Medline: 20428282]
19. Eysenbach G, Köhler C. How do consumers search for and appraise health information on the world wide web? Qualitative study using focus groups, usability tests, and in-depth interviews. BMJ 2002 Mar 9;324(7337):573-577 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 11884321] (Pubitemid 34214337)
20. Hansen DL, Derry HA, Resnick PJ, Richardson CR. Adolescents searching for health information on the Internet: an observational study. J Med Internet Res 2003 Oct 17;5(4):e25 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.2196/jmir.5.4.e25] [Medline: 14713653]
21. Laurent MR, Vickers TJ. Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter? J Am Med Inform Assoc 2009;16(4):471-479. [doi: 10.1197/jamia.M3059] [Medline: 19390105]
22. Wikimedia Meta-Wiki. comScore data on Wikimedia URL: http://meta. wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Stu/comScore-data-on-Wikimedia [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHQKVZPZ]
23. Alexa: The Web Information Company. Top Sites: The Top 500 Sites on the Web URL: http://www.alexa.com/topsites [accessed 2010-06-01] [WebCite Cache ID 5qAC8zaVP]
24. Boyd D. Corante. 2005 Jan 04. Many 2 Many: A Group Weblog on Social Software: Academia and Wikipedia URL: http://many.corante.com/archives/2005/01/ 04/academia-and-wikipedia.php [accessed 2010-05-17] [WebCite Cache ID 5po7AJM90]
25. McLean R, Richards BH, Wardman JI. The effect of Web 2.0 on the future of medical practice and education: Darwikinian evolution or folksonomic revolution? Med J Aust 2007 Aug 6;187(3):174-177 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 17680746] (Pubitemid 47307673)
26. Priedhorsky R, Chen JK, Lam SK, Panciera K, Terveen L, Riedl J. Creating, destroying, and restoring value in Wikipedia. In: Riedl J, editor. Proceedings of the 2007 international ACM Conference on Supporting Group Work. New York, NY: ACM Press; 2007:259-268.
27. Cohen N. New York Times. 2009 Jul 29. A Rorschach Cheat Sheet on Wikipedia? URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/technology/internet/29inkblot. html?-r=1 [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHQvjBJN]
28. Leggett H. Wired Science. 2009 Aug 30. Wikipedia to Color Code Untrustworthy Text URL: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/wikitrust/ [accessed 2010-05-17] [WebCite Cache ID 5po6LpRNu]
29. Chi EH, Kittur A, Pendleton BA, Suh B. Augmented Social Cognition Research Blog from PARC. 2007 May 15. Long Tail of User Participation in Wikipedia URL: http://asc-parc.blogspot.com/2007/05/long-tail-and-power-law- graphs-of-user.html [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHTBWqYK]
30. Wikipedia. Statistics URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special: Statistics [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHTidq0Z]
31. Wikipedia talk. 2010 Jun 09. WikiProject Medicine URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia-talk:WikiProject-Medicine [accessed 2010-06-09] [WebCite Cache ID 5qM4k45ae]
32. Wikipedia. 2010 Jun 02. WikiProject Medicine/Assessment URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject-Medicine/Assessment [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHUh7DJN]
33. Wikipedia. 2010 Jul 17. WikiProject Pharmacology/Assessment URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject-Pharmacology/Assessment [accessed 2010-08-14] [WebCite Cache ID 5rz8QeX2x]
34. Hughes B, Joshi I, Lemonde H, Wareham J. Junior physician's use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: a qualitative study. Int J Med Inform 2009 Oct;78(10):645-655. [doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.04.008] [Medline: 19501017]
35. Comer B. Medical Marketing & Media. 2009 Apr 21. Docs Look to Wikipedia for Condition Info: Manhattan Research URL: http://www.mmm-online.com/ docs-look-to-wikipedia-for-condition-info-manhattan-research/article/131038/ [accessed 2010-05-21] [WebCite Cache ID 5ptOCZjpR]
36. Hughes B, Wareham J, Joshi I. Doctors' online information needs, cognitive search strategies, and judgments of information quality and cognitive authority: how predictive judgments introduce bias into cognitive search models. J Am Soc Inf Sci Technol 2010;61(3):433-452.
37. Brokowski L, Sheehan AH. Evaluation of pharmacist use and perception of Wikipedia as a drug information resource. Ann Pharmacother 2009 Nov;43(11):1912-1913. [doi: 10.1345/aph.1M340] [Medline: 19843833]
38. Wikipedia. 2010 May 01. WikiProject Medicine/Popular pages URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject-Medicine/Popular-pages [accessed 2010-05-21] [WebCite Cache ID 5ptOSIPz8]
39. Giles J. Wikipedia rival calls in the experts. Nature 2006 Oct 5;443(7111):493. [doi: 10.1038/443493a] [Medline: 17024058]
40. Rosenzweig R. Can history be open source? Wikipedia and the future of the past. J Am Hist 2006;93(1):117-146 [FREE Full text] [WebCite Cache] (Pubitemid 44834177)
41. Goodman MJ. Readers' and author's responses to "are traditional peer-reviewed medical articles obsolete?". MedGenMed 2006;8(1):70; author reply 70 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 16915200]
42. Kittur A, Suh B, Pendleton BA, Chi EH. He says, she says: conflict and coordination in Wikipedia. In: Chi EH, editor. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY: ACM Press; 2007:453-462. (Pubitemid 47581633)
43. Cohen N. New York Times. 2009 Aug 23. Complaint over doctor who posted inkblot test URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/business/24inkblot.html?-r=1 [accessed 2010-08-14] [WebCite Cache ID 5rz9fciJ6]
44. Jain SH. Practicing medicine in the age of Facebook. N Engl J Med 2009 Aug 13;361(7):649-651 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.1056/NEJMp0901277] [Medline: 19675328]
45. Thompson LA, Dawson K, Ferdig R, Black EW, Boyer J, Coutts J, et al. The intersection of online social networking with medical professionalism. J Gen Intern Med 2008 Jul;23(7):954-957. [doi: 10.1007/s11606-008-0538-8] [Medline: 18612723] (Pubitemid 351960243)
46. Frishauf P. Are traditional peer-reviewed medical articles obsolete? MedGenMed 2006;8(1):5 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 16915135]
47. Stillman-Lowe C. Wikipedia comes second. Br Dent J 2008 Nov 22;205(10):525. [doi: 10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.994] [Medline: 19023293]
48. Noruzi A. Wikipedia popularity from a citation analysis point of view. Webology 2009 Jun;6(2):20 [FREE Full text] [WebCite Cache]
49. Giles J. Internet encyclopaedias go head to head. Nature 2005 Dec 15;438(7070):900-901. [doi: 10.1038/438900a] [Medline: 16355180]
50. Nielsen FA. Scientific citations in Wikipedia. First Monday 2007 Aug;12(8) [FREE Full text] [WebCite Cache]
51. Clauson KA, Polen HH, Boulos MN, Dzenowagis JH. Scope, completeness, and accuracy of drug information in Wikipedia. Ann Pharmacother 2008 Dec;42(12):1814-1821. [doi: 10.1345/aph.1L474] [Medline: 19017825]
52. Devgan L, Powe N, Blakey B, Makary M. Wiki-Surgery? Internal validity of Wikipedia as a medical and surgical reference. J Am Coll Surg 2007;205(3S):S76-S77.
53. Pender MP, Lasserre KE, Del Mar C, Kruesi L, Anuradha S. Is Wikipedia unsuitable as a clinical information resource for medical students? Med Teach 2009 Dec;31(12):1095-1096. [Medline: 20050104]
54. Haigh CA. Wikipedia as an evidence source for nursing and healthcare students. Nurse Educ Today 2010 Jun 19. [doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.05.004] [Medline: 20646799]
55. Friedlin J, McDonald CJ. An evaluation of medical knowledge contained in Wikipedia and its use in the LOINC database. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2010 May 1;17(3):283-287. [doi: 10.1136/jamia.2009.001180] [Medline: 20442145]
56. Czarnecka-Kujawa K, Abdalian R, Grover SC. The quality of Open Access and Open Source Internet material in gastroenterology: is Wikipedia appropriate for knowledge transfer to patients? Gastroenterology 2008;134(4S1):A-325-A-326. [doi: 10.1016/S0016-5085(08)61518-8]
57. Rajagopalan MS, Khanna V, Stott M, Leiter Y, Showalter TN, Dicker A, et al. Accuracy of cancer information on the Internet: a comparison of a Wiki with a professionally maintained database. J Clin Oncol 2010;7(suppl):abstr 6058 [FREE Full text] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHVdYC5Y]
58. Kim JY, Gudewicz TM, Dighe AS, Gilbertson JR. The pathology informatics curriculum wiki: harnessing the power of user-generated content. J Pathol Inform 2010 Jul 13;1:10 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.65428] [Medline: 20805963]
59. Rothman R. davidrothman.net. 2009 Jan 21. List of Medical Wikis URL: http://davidrothman.net/list-of-medical-wikis/ [accessed 2010-05-17] [WebCite Cache ID 5po5EbWiN]
60. Dawes M, Godwin M. Global medical knowledge database is proposed. BMJ 2000 May 13;320(7245):1340 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 10885921] (Pubitemid 30245733)
61. Schoer J, Hertel G. Virtual Collaboration Network, Department of Organisational Psychology, University of Muenster. 2007 Dec 3. Voluntary Engagement in an Open Web-based Encyclopedia: Wikipedians, and Why They Do It URL: http://www.psy.uni-muenster.de:8019/publications.php?action=view&id=44 [accessed 2010-05-17] [WebCite Cache ID 5po3K6HI1]
62. Callis KL, Christ LR, Resasco J, Armitage DW, Ash JD, Caughlin TT, et al. Improving Wikipedia: educational opportunity and professional responsibility. Trends Ecol Evol 2009 Apr;24(4):177-179. [doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.01.003] [Medline: 19269059]
63. Butler D. Publish in Wikipedia or perish. Nature News 2008 Dec 16. [doi: 10.1038/news.2008.1312]
64. Smith R. Measuring the social impact of research. BMJ 2001 Sep 8;323(7312):528 [FREE Full text] [Medline: 11546684]
65. Caputo I. Washington Post. 2009 Jul 28. NIH staffers get into the wiki world: scientists learn online etiquette URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2009/07/27/AR2009072701912.html [accessed 2010-05-17] [WebCite Cache ID 5po340O5v]
66. Daub J, Gardner PP, Tate J, Ramsköld D, Manske M, Scott WG, et al. The RNA WikiProject: community annotation of RNA families. RNA 2008 Dec;14(12):2462-2464 [FREE Full text] [doi: 10.1261/rna.1200508] [Medline: 18945806]
67. Wikipedia. 2010 Sep 02. Announcement to WikiProject Medicine community prior to trial editorial review URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia- talk:WikiProject-Medicine/Archive-18 [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHYoQQ5U]
68. Wikimedia press release. 2006 Aug 04. One Laptop Per Child Includes Wikipedia on $100 Laptops URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Press- releases/One-Laptop-Per-Child-Includes-Wikipedia-on-$100-Laptops [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHZ2fF5g]
69. Wikimedia press releases. 2008 Oct 22. SOS Children UK and the Wikimedia Foundation Announce the 2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for Schools URL: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press-releases/2008-9-Selection-for-Schools [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHZ8c6Pz]
70. HIFA2015. A Global Campaign: Healthcare Information for All by 2015 URL: http://www.hifa2015.org/about/ [accessed 2010-06-06] [WebCite Cache ID 5qHZELa7W]
71. Giustini D. How Web 2.0 is changing medicine. BMJ 2006 Dec 23;333(7582):1283-1284. [doi: 10.1136/bmj.39062.555405.80] [Medline: 17185707] (Pubitemid 46033313)