A framework for improving the quality of health information on the world-wide-web and bettering public (E-)health: The medcertain approach

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 84, Issue , 2001, Pages 1450-1454

  Eysenbach, Gunther ^a   Köhler, Christian ^a   Yihune, Gabriel ^a   Lampe, Kristian ^b   Cross, Phil ^c   Brickley, Dan ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer Health Informatics; Ethics; Internet; MedCERTAIN; Public Health; Publishing; Quality of Information

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; PUBLISHING; WEBSITES;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATICS; ETHICS; HEALTH PROFESSIONALS; INFORMATION PROVIDER; MEDCERTAIN; NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS; QUALITY OF INFORMATION;

PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EVALUATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD;

DATABASES; EVALUATION STUDIES; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH EDUCATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS APPLICATIONS; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84869659455     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-928-8-1450     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (22)

1. Impicciatore P, Pandolfini C, Casella N, Bonati M. Reliability of health information for the public on the World Wide Web: systematic survey of advice on managing fever in children at home. BMJ 1997; 314: 1875-1879.
2. Culver JD, Gerr F, Frumkin H. Medical information on the Internet: a study of an electronic bulletin board [see comments]. J Gen Intern Med 1997; 12:466-470.
3. Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL. Evaluation of cyberdocs. Lancet 1998; 352:1526
4. Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL. Responses to unsolicited patient e-mail requests for medical advice on the World Wide Web. JAMA 1998; 280:1333-1335.
5. Sandvik H. Health information and interaction on the internet: a survey of female urinary incontinence. BMJ 1999; 319:29-32.
6. Eysenbach G. Consumer health informatics. BMJ 2000; 320:1713-1716.
7. Coiera E. Information epidemics, economics, and immunity on the internet. We still know so little about the effect of information on public health [editorial; comment]. BMJ 1998; 317:1469-1470.
8. McLeod SD. The quality of medical information on the Internet. A new public health concern [editorial]. Arch Ophthalmol 1998; 116:1663-1665.
9. Eysenbach G, Yihune G, Lampe K, Cross P, Brickley D. Med CERTAIN: Quality Management, Certification and Rating of Health Information on the Net. Proc AMIA Symp 2000;230-234.
10. Eysenbach G. Towards ethical guidelines for e-health: JMIR Theme Issue on eHealth Ethics. J Med Internet Res 2000; 2:e7. URL: http://www.jmir.Org/2000/l/ e7/
11. Charnock D, Shepperd S, Needham G, Gann R. DISCERN: an instrument forjudging the quality of written consumer health information on treatment choices. J Epidemiol Community Health 1999; 53:105-111.
12. Boyer C, Selby M, Scherrer JR, Appel RD. The Health On the Net Code of Conduct for medical and health Websites. Comput Biol Med 1998; 28:603-610.
13. Winker MA, Flanagin A, Chi-Lum B, et al. Guidelines for Medical and Health Information Sites on the Internet. JAMA 2000; 283:1600-1606.
14. e-Health Ethics Initiative. e-Health Code of Ethics. J Med Internet Res 2000; 2:e9 URL: http://www.jmir.Org/2000/2/e9/
15. Baur C, Deering MJ. Proposed Frameworks to Improve the Quality of Health Web Sites: Review. MedGenMed 2000
16. Eysenbach G, Diepgen TL. Towards quality management of medical information on the internet: evaluation, labelling, and filtering of information [see comments], BMJ 1998; 317:1496-1500.
17. Heidelberg Consensus Recommendations on Trust- marks. J Med Internet Res 2000; 2:el2 URL: http://www.jmir.Org/2OOO/3/suppi2/ei2/
18. Jadad AR, Gagliardi A. Rating health information on the Internet: navigating to knowledge or to Babel? [see comments]. JAMA 1998; 279:611-614.
19. Eysenbach G. The impact of preprint servers and electronic publishing on biomedical research. Curr Op Immunol 2000; 12:499-503.
20. Eysenbach G, Sa ER, Diepgen TL. Shopping around the internet today and tomorrow: towards the millennium of cybermedicine. BMJ 1999; 319:1294 URL: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7220/1294
21. Draft Heidelberg Collaboration Statement of Purpose. J Med Internet Res 2000; 2:ell URL: http://www.jmir.Org/2000/3/suppl2/el 1/
22. Terry NP. Rating the "Raters": Legal Exposure of Trustmark Authorities in the Context of Consumer Health Informatics. J Med Internet Res 2000; 2:el8 URL: http://www.jmir.Org/2000/3/e18