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Guiding your Patients to Reliable Health
Information Resources: Hints for Clinicians

January 20, 2000

Dr. St. Germain's Presentation

An estimated 22 million U.S. adults went online in 1998 to find health information. Almost 1.5 million people visited just one site, drkoop.com, in May 1999. But with all of that interest in consumer-oriented health information, what kind of information are they finding? A study of 371 Web sites about Ewing's sarcoma concluded that 6% of the sites offered "clearly erroneous" information and that at least one third of the sites were not peer reviewed. (Biermann JS. Golladay GJ. Greenfield ML. Baker LH, "Evaluation of cancer information on the Internet." Cancer 86 (3):381-90, 1999 Aug 1).


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