Atlas M C
Kornhauser Health Sciences Library, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292, USA.
Med Ref Serv Q. 2001 Spring;20(1):11-25. doi: 10.1300/J115v20n01_02.
Physicians are becoming aware of the World Wide Web as a resource for medical information. In spring 1999, first-year students at the University of Louisville's School of Medicine were given an assignment to review and evaluate Internet search engines and directories, medicine-specific search engines and meta lists, and health-related Web sites. Students found that general search engines were easier to learn and use and produced better results than either meta medical sites or medicine-specific search engines. Students were very severe in judging the quality of health-related Web sites. Our students' impressions are compared to those of physicians in similar studies. Solutions to the problems of searching the Web for health information are reviewed.
医生们逐渐意识到万维网可作为医学信息资源。1999年春，路易斯维尔大学医学院的一年级学生接到一项任务，要求他们审查和评估互联网搜索引擎与目录、医学专用搜索引擎和元列表以及健康相关网站。学生们发现，通用搜索引擎比医学元网站或医学专用搜索引擎更容易学习和使用，且搜索结果更好。学生们在评判健康相关网站的质量时非常严格。我们将学生的看法与类似研究中医生的看法进行了比较。文中还审视了在网上搜索健康信息所存在问题的解决办法。
