BMJ 2002;324:582-583 ( 9 March )

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Follow up of quality of public oriented health information on the world wide web: systematic re-evaluation

Chiara Pandolfini, senior research fellow, Maurizio Bonati, head. 

Laboratory for Mother and Child Health, Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", 20157 Milan, Italy

Correspondence to: C Pandolfini chiara@marionegri.it

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In 1997 one of the first studies to evaluate the quality of health information on the internet was published.1 This article assessed the reliability of information for managing fever in children at home and found that the quality of information was poor. Four years after publication these findings were mentioned in 78 journals (from Journal Citation Report), and the message should therefore have reached a wide audience. We investigated the effects of the earlier findings by re-evaluating the quality of the original web pages four years later, as well as that of a more recent sample of pages, using the same methods.


    Methods and results

On 28 June 2001 we searched articles through the Institute for Scientific Information's citation index for references to the earlier study.1 We searched for the 41 web pages evaluated in the original study to see if they still existed and if they did whether they had been substituted with new pages or . . . [Full text of this article]
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