Lobach D F, Spell R U, Hales J W, Rabold J S
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Proc AMIA Symp. 1999:839-43.
The number of health-related Web sites on the Internet is increasing. Incorporating these sites into clinical decision support systems and other health care applications can significantly enhance the educational and instructional value of such systems. While search engines exist for finding sites and criteria are available for assessing site quality, few tools are available for managing Web-based health care information. Management of Web-based information is particularly challenging because the information is continually changing and new resources are continually being added. In this paper, we describe the development and use of a Web-link manager for health care applications. This system retains search strategies for repeated use, catalogues search results in a search results database, accommodates tracking of site review and use status, and provides periodic checking of link integrity for sites that are used in local applications. The Web-link manager is currently in use to manage the links used in a clinical decision support system that presents clinical practice guidelines interactively to clinicians at the point of care.
互联网上与健康相关的网站数量正在增加。将这些网站纳入临床决策支持系统和其他医疗保健应用程序可以显著提高此类系统的教育和指导价值。虽然存在用于查找网站的搜索引擎，也有评估网站质量的标准，但用于管理基于网络的医疗保健信息的工具却很少。基于网络的信息管理尤其具有挑战性，因为信息在不断变化，新资源也在不断增加。在本文中，我们描述了一种用于医疗保健应用程序的网络链接管理器的开发和使用。该系统保留搜索策略以供重复使用，在搜索结果数据库中编目搜索结果，适应对网站审查和使用状态的跟踪，并定期检查本地应用程序中使用的网站的链接完整性。该网络链接管理器目前用于管理一个临床决策支持系统中使用的链接，该系统在护理点向临床医生交互式呈现临床实践指南。
